Boost productivity: Manage your energy, not your time! ⚡️
Did you know: The average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes a day? That’s a jarring 30% of an 8 hour work day. What happens the rest of the day? And why do w...
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A growing collection of articles on agility, innovation, leadership, and product management. Practical insights to help you navigate change and build high-performing teams.
Test-driven development (TDD) is about more than testing
To be agile we need to move and adapt fast. Software developers have come up with hands-on techniques to enable this speed. One of these techniques is test-driven development (a...
The Iron Triangle from an Agile Perspective
(See full article for paying members) Have you ever been told that agile methods can’t meet deadlines or stay within budget? It’s a common myth that leaves many skeptical about...
Mastering Deadlines with Agile Methods: How to Deliver on Time and Within Budget
Have you ever been told that agile methods can’t meet deadlines or stay within budget? It’s a common myth that leaves many skeptical about the true power of agility. But what if...
Don‘t ignore the hidden preconditions for Scrum
Are you sure you’re using Scrum correctly? Does your Scrum team fulfill the preconditions? Prerequisites of ScrumWhen it comes to implementing Scrum, people often talk about sp...
The Hidden Agile Killer: How Traditional Budgeting Methods Undermine Innovation
How agile can you be, if your budgeting process is still stuck in waterfall land? Sadly, many agile transformations are stopped in their tracks by the budgeting process. In or...
Beyond Bug Hunting: Mastering Agile Testing For Superior Product Quality!
Picture this: a traditional software development team is sprinting towards their release deadline, and there’s palpable tension in the air. The testing phase, meticulously sch...
Boost Your Emotional IQ Every Day: Why Daily Check-Ins Are Great
Why are emotional check-ins a boost for productivity? Imagine it’s Monday morning, and you’re gearing up for the first video call of the week with your distributed agile team. ...
How to Improve Your Retrospectives in 7 Steps
Retrospectives are the most important event in all of Scrum. That’s not just me saying this, that’s Ken Schwaber, the co-inventor of Scrum. Yet Retrospectives easily turn into p...
Why Your Sprint Retrospectives Fail and How to Make Them Inspire Real Change
Avoid the Pitfalls: Guide to Effective and Efficient Sprint Retrospectives Over two decades of working in agile environments, I’ve witnessed countless sprint retrospectives fal...
How To Measure Psychological Safety In Agile Teams?
Think of the best team you’ve ever been part of. What made it stand out? Was it the easy way everyone shared ideas, or maybe the comfort of speaking up without fear of being shu...
Efficiency or Effectiveness - What Will Give You the Competitive Edge?
Today I want to give you an article you can pass on to doubting managers. It talks about a company‘s competitive edge in the 21. century: is it efficiency or effectiveness? ...
How To Demo The Backend In An Agile Way?
When it comes to Sprint Reviews or demos, the golden rule is to show a working solution. You want to engage your audience in a way that elicits meaningful feedback. But what hap...
How Positive Intent Transforms Agile Team Dynamics for Better Productivity
In professional soccer, a 2005 study titled Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks provides a fascinating insight into the impact of culture and p...
Is Extrinsic Motivation Really Bad? Understand the Balance for Great Leadership
The widely held belief that extrinsic motivation invariably diminishes intrinsic motivation deserves a nuanced examination. Contrary to this popular notion, a recent study sugge...