Category: General
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Empowering Teams Instead of Telling Them What to Do
In the context of organizational change, whether it’s part of a formal “Agile Transformation” or just trying to make things better, one behaviour I frequently have to deal with is when Directors or VPs, who I’ll refer to as management, tell me something along the lines of “The teams need to do this.” They might…
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Test-Driven Goals: A Scalable and Effective Pattern
I’ve been working with a team and trying to help them answer questions about their plan for the upcoming year. Even if the team can answer these questions, there’s another that always seems to pose a challenge: “What are you trying to achieve?” To help them answer the question of what they want to achieve,…
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Starting a Wardley Map with a Mental Model Diagram
Last time, we discussed a team where, to secure funding, they needed to present a strategy of where and how to invest. The team began by holding a series of workshops that I facilitated. In those workshops, I introduced the concept of Mental Model Diagrams that helps to match users’ needs with features that support…
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Capturing Customer Jobs Using a Mental Model Diagram
Recently, my client asked for my help facilitating a series of strategic planning workshops. In order to secure funding for the next fiscal year, they needed to develop and present a strategy for their platform for the next ten years describing where to invest. To create that strategy, each workshop in the series would focus…
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Learning Agile with ChatGPT
I spent some time experimenting with OpenAI’s ChatGPT product to ask it some questions about agile and was blown away by the results. Using this tool made it feel like I was getting a sneak peek into the future. I asked it a series of increasingly challenging questions. I started with some straightforward questions, asking…
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Turn Jira’s Control Chart Into a Lead Time Scatterplot
In an earlier post, Quick Jira Control Chart Aging WIP Hack, I walked through the process of using Jira’s control chart report to get a view of a team’s aging work in progress. Aging work in progress is a simple and effective tool to help manage a team’s work. Soon after publishing that article, I…
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