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The Retro Your Team Might Be Missing

I recently facilitated three retrospectives where teams reflected on an entire year of working together.

Looking that far back, they noticed patterns, made connections, and uncovered issues that hadn’t come up in sprint retros.READ MORE

We Have a Hard Deadline — Can We Still Be Agile?

Do you need to deliver a lot by a fixed deadline?

Fixed deadlines and agility aren’t mutually exclusive.

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Test With Customers, not With Management

Have you ever heard of a company that measures how many customers they lose because of their marketing efforts?

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10 Matters for Delivering Better Results

If you’re working on improving your product development processes, keep the following 10 matters in mind. These are some of the key points I wrote about in my book Deliver Better Results.
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What We Lost When Agile Faded Into the Background

Agile thought leaders used to say: “Eventually, Agile processes will become the norm, so we won’t even use the term anymore.” They were right, but they also missed something big.
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Watch the Work, not the Workers

This pithy expression describes a key behaviour for leaders who want great results.

In too many companies, the opposite happens, and the consequences include:READ MORE

What University Degrees Teach Us About Sprints

At a new client, POs and managers routinely over-commit sprints, make changes midway, and roll a bunch of work to the next sprint.

Sounds easy to fix, right?

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Do You Consume Enough Feedback in Your Process Diet?

Frequent product feedback is a central element of modern development processes. But there’s a wide gap between theory and reality.
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Stay in Your Lane

In 2004, I joined a software company as a back-end tech lead.

Early on, I was given an explicit boundary: don’t talk to the front-end team.

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Don’t Tinker; Transform. Gradually.

You’ve tried. Not once, not twice. But the stakeholders still need your product development org to deliver better results.

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