Tag: Agile
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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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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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Snapshot: Introducing Ready Options to a B2B Service Team
When I work with teams who have undergone Agile or Product training, these teams often have large backlogs of work and boast about the importance of prioritizing work based on value. I’m currently helping a team that went through such training years ago, but these practices of having a backlog and focusing on customer value…
Flow Focused 