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The Hand Written Letter of Gratitude
Season 5 Episode 1450
The Hand Written Letter of Gratitude
In a classroom study, students were asked to write a heartfelt letter of thanks to someone who had helped them and then read that letter aloud to the person in a s…
Published on 4 weeks ago
How Do we GROW? - Getting People on The Same Page!
Season 5 Episode 1449
How Do we GROW? - Getting People on The Same Page!
Do you know the Acronym GROW?
G = Goals
R = Reality
O = Options, Opportunities, and Obstacles
W = What We Will Commit to do First...
How to connect wit…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Are You Protecting Your Team Against the Right Thing? - Mike Cohn
Season 5 Episode 1448
Are You Protecting Your Team Against the Right Thing? - Mike Cohn
A lot has been written and said about the responsibility of a Scrum Master to protect the team.
Examples of protecting the team typical…
Published on 1 month ago
No, Product Management Isn’t Useless — You’re Just Doing It Wrong
Season 5 Episode 1447
No, Product Management Isn’t Useless — You’re Just Doing It Wrong
If you think PMs just write tickets and slow things down, you haven’t seen product management done right.
I’ve lost count of how many t…
Published on 1 month ago
The Scrum Master Role Is Disappearing - Or Is It?
Season 5 Episode 1446
The Scrum Master Role Is Disappearing - Or Is It?
The layoffs of 2023 told a story that few in the tech industry wanted to acknowledge. Among the 120,000+ tech workers who lost their jobs, Scrum Mast…
Published on 1 month ago
Trick-or-treaters Leave Their Halloween Candy For Child Battling Leukemia
Season 5 Episode 1445
Trick-or-treaters Leave Their Halloween Candy For Child Battling Leukemia
A search for hope at the end of this very anxious week led me to this humble bundle. Zoe, 3, is the proud product of TJ and C…
Published on 1 month ago
Witch’s Brew of Metrics — Don’t Let Vanity Hex Your Team
Season 5 Episode 1444
Witch’s Brew of Metrics — Don’t Let Vanity Hex Your Team
Metric definition template
Name:
What it measures:
Owner:
Frequency:
Thresholds / signals:
Action when threshold met:
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Published on 1 month ago
Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things
Season 5 Episode 1443
Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things At You...
5 micro-rituals (practical)
Purpose line on invite — one sentence: “Decision needed / Sync / Info.”
Time-boxed agenda — 3 bullets with owner…
Published on 1 month ago
The Phantom Sprint — Invisible Work That Steals Velocity
Season 5 Episode 1442
The Phantom Sprint — Invisible Work That Steals Velocity
Your sprint looks healthy — until a phantom dependency eats your finish line. Here’s how to find the invisible work before the demo.
Detection &…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The Haunted Backlog — When Old Stories Won’t Die
Season 5 Episode 1441
The Haunted Backlog — When Old Stories Won’t Die
Triage: Mark backlog items > 90 days old as “graveyard candidates.”
Reframe: Turn vague epics into a one-sentence outcome + metric. If you can’t, bury i…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago