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Deliver with Confidence

Five ways to commit: Exploring sprint planning models

This year’s SPCT day and SAFe Summit had me thinking about some of the variations of I’ve used for team-level activities over the last seventeen (!) years. One of the big things that has served me well is having a Read more…

By Eric Willeke, 4 months4 months ago
Deliver with Confidence

Leveraging Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) to Improve Products–and Meetings?

In looking to help explain how we design and facilitate value-driven, culture-changing meetings, I find I regularly need to explain how I leverage JTBD. (There are a ton of different ways to describe and use JTBD out there and some Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 4 months4 months ago
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Acts of appreciation: Preserving greatness

I recently drove along the rim road of the Grand Canyon as part of a road trip. Being there, surrounded by nature, aware of the effort to maintain it, and reflecting on life and journeys, led me to reflect on Read more…

By Eric Willeke, 5 months5 months ago
Practice Makes Culture

Stand-ups, not Status Meetings

The stand-up meeting, which we get from Scrum, can be one of the more magical, simple agile practices, helping the humans connect and collaborate and work as a team. But most of the stand-ups I observe fail to achieve the Read more…

By Ronica Roth, 5 months5 months ago
Lead with Heart

Too Many Meetings? Stack Rank Them in a Prioritized Backlog

I hear so many amazing humans in F1000, F500, F10 companies talking about having meetings from 7 to 6, from 8 to 6… and then trying to do their “actual” work after that. Meetings are “actual” work, so let’s make Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 5 months1 month ago
Steer with Clarity

Clarity Is Hard

Lessons in leadership keep me humble, and remind me what we need to keep learning. Join the conversation on LinkedIn to share how you provide clarity in your org. Clarity is Job #1 for leaders. The greatest gift you can Read more…

By Ronica Roth, 6 months6 months ago
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Lead with Heart

Leave the World a Little Better than You Found It

My family would go camping up at Turquoise Lake when I was young. My brother and I loved sleeping in the tent, cooking outside, hiking to find wild strawberries, and playing in and around the lake. We would stay for Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 6 months6 months ago
Practice Makes Culture

Practice Makes Culture

What we each practice as conscious behaviors (and habits) shapes the culture of our relationship with ourselves, with our partners, within our organizations, within our country, across countries and throughout our world. I’ll follow this post with others on culture, Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 6 months6 months ago
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Steer with Clarity

Understanding and changing your constraints

As I’m teaching today, I was reminded of a way I used to describe system constraints back when I taught a lot of kanban classes and helped design kanban systems. This quick post captures them for reference and to seed Read more…

By Eric Willeke, 6 months6 months ago
Deliver with Confidence

How Effectively Does Your Volunteer Board Support Your Org?

I’ve been learning more about strengthening leadership teams by working with not-for-profit boards of directors (including the one I’m on). What have you experienced with regard to volunteer teams? Join the conversation on LinkedIn. When a non-profit board of directors Read more…

By Ronica Roth, 7 months7 months ago

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