The Humanizing Work Show
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Episodes: 204
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A show about making work more fit for humans and all of us humans more capable of doing great work
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#209 Quarterly Planning Done Right
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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#208 The Surprising Move That Ended My Leadership Frustration
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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#207 A Better Way to Practice Gratitude
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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#206 Feature Mining: Find the Smart First Slice of a Big Complex Idea
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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#205 Three Strategies to Reduce the Pain of Cross-Team Dependencies
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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#204 The Life-Changing Focus of a Clean Backlog
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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#203 5 Research-Backed Ways to Say No Without Being a Jerk
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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#202 How to Run a Retrospective That Actually Improves Things (Ep 61 Rebroadcast)
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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#201 Scrum vs Kanban – When to Use Each (and Four Ways to Combine Them)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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#200 Metrics, Trust, and Escaping the Status Report Trap
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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#199 How to Overcome Resistance to a Complexity-First Approach
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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#198 Presenting to Leadership? Here's How to Get Great Results
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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#197 Vibe Coding Gotchas to Watch Out For
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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#196 How to Fix Story Point Estimation
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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#195: Why Forecasting Works (and Estimating Fails)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#194 From Debate to Decision: Three Strategies to Keep Feedback Useful
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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#193 Using Deliberate Practice to Take Your Work From Good to Great
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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#192 PI Planning Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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#191 How to Build a Calm, Supportive Culture (and Why It Works)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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#190 Beyond Retrospectives: Team Resets Can Boost Productivity, Direction, and Connection
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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#189 Designing Work for Flow with Hollywood & Tech Exec Steven Puri
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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7-7-25 Humanizing Work is on Vacation This Week, New Content Next Week!
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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#188 [REBROADCAST] How Mark Ethier Built a High-Performing Organization at iZotope
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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#187 Advice for Internal Product Owners
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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#186 Which Parts of Scrum are Essential
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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#185 Using Breakouts to Improve Team Meetings
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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#184 The Surprising Upside of Tough Feedback
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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#183 When Teams Get in a Rut, Great Facilitators Play a Wildcard
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May 26, 2025 |
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#182 The Top 3 Traits of Successful Leaders, & Quick Habits to Develop Them
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May 19, 2025 |
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#181 How to Give Feedback That’s True, Useful, and Kind
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May 12, 2025 |
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#180 Use a Team Empowerment Map to Fix Delegation Theater
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May 05, 2025 |
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#179 Agile Burnout? Two Ways to Reenergize Your Team
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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#178 Three Keys to Productive Backlog Refinement
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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#177 One Breakthrough Tip to Improve Each Scrum Meeting
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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#176 Great Strategy in a Complex World
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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#175 How to Split a User Story
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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#174 How to Make Change Management Joyful and Collaborative
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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#173 Making a Split Product Owner Role Work
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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#172 CAPED Phases 3-4: Creating Predictability While Keeping Adaptability
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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#171 CAPED Phase 2: The Secret to Planning Complex Work
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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#170 CAPED Phase 1–Complexity Aware Project Kickoffs
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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#169 CAPED: A Smarter Way to Plan Complex Work
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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#168 Should You Backfill That Leadership Role—or Rethink It?
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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#167 "But in the Real World...": Overcoming Resistance to Change
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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#166 Five Lessons to Build Stronger Trust at Work and Home
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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#165 Three Things You Need for Empowerment
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#164 How the Progress Principle Can Help Your Goals Stick This Year
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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#163 Five Ways to Get Fired Up for 2025
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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#162 Leadership Lessons from the Vineyard: A Conversation with Steven Thompson
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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#161 4-Steps to Go From Resistance to Action
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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#160 Backlog Refinement: Avoiding the Detail Trap
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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#159 How to Run an Effective Year-End Retrospective
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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#158 How to Do Complexity Aware Annual Planning
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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#157 Are Product Owners & Product Managers the Same Thing?
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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#156 How to Make a Team Faster (Without Burning Out)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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#155 How to Manage Deadlines in Agile
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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#154 Beyond the Spotify Model: CTO Kevin Goldsmith on Agile, Authority & Empowering Teams
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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#153 Behind the Scenes of a 50-Person Remote Retro
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#152 Decision-Making in Consensus Cultures
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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#151 What Business Teams Can Learn From Jazz (Edited Rebroadcast)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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#150 Dealing With 'But We Must!' Management
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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#149 Using Focused Conversations to Access Group Wisdom
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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#148 Streamlining Cross-Team Coordination: Save Time, Catch Details That Matter
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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#147 To Plan or Not to Plan?
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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#146 When Purpose and Strategy Don't Matter
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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#145 Projects Shouldn’t Start Green, They Should Earn It
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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#144 Giving Great Answers to Impromptu Questions: Richard’s Top Five Tips
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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#143 Daily Scrum Taking Too Long?
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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#142 Agile's Three Tribes: People, Performance, and Process
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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#141 Setting Team Goals: 5 Tips for Getting it Right
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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#140 The Fishbowl & the Psychological Costs of Agile
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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#139 Why Leadership Communication Fails and Three Strategies to Fix It
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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#138 How to Launch a Highly Effective Leadership Team
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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#137 5 Lessons from Music to Help You Succeed at Work | Humanizing Work Show
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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#136 Why You Should Amplify Your Amundsens and Dampen Your Shackletons
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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#135 The Duck Canopy Incident & Its Unexpected Lessons for Work
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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#134 Why Agile Jobs Are Vanishing, and What to Do About It | Humanizing Work Show
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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#133 Employee Engagement Is Terrible. Why It Matters and What Can Be Done.
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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#132 The Complex Boundary Between Product & Engineering Leadership
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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#131 Can’t fix it? Make it more visible
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May 27, 2024 |
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#130 How We Dealt with Resistance to Change
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May 20, 2024 |
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#129 Do Product Owners Do Strategy? Here’s What Actual POs Said
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May 13, 2024 |
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#128 How to Communicate Strategy with the Strategy Steps Canvas
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May 06, 2024 |
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#127 Burnout and Disengagement on Agile Teams
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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#126 Transforming a Bad Day: 4 Trail Strategies for the Office
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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#125 How to Make Your Process Fit Your Work
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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#124 How to Craft a Vision Statement That’s Not Just Corporate-Speak
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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#123 How to Tackle Your Business’s Biggest Risk with David J Bland
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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#122 How to Get Agile Team & Org Structure Right
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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#121 How to Get Useful Feedback on a Work-in-Progress
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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#120 Immunity to Change
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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#119 How an Incremental, Small Slice Approach Gives Real Progress
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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#118 Three tools to Resolve (Almost) Any Conflict
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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#117 What Leaders Need to Know About Leading Agile Teams
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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#116 What To Do When You’re Overcommitted and Feel Stuck
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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#115 Fix Your Meetings with DAVID
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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#114 Can We Train AI to Be a Business Coach?
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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#113 Alistair Cockburn on Use Cases & User Stories
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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#112 Cross-Functional Teams & Real-World Challenges | Humanizing Work Show
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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#111 Feature Hostage Negotiation with Dean Peters
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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#110 How to Set the Right Goals for 2024 | Humanizing Work Show
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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#109 When Your Team Inspects But Doesn’t Adapt
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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#108 Culture Signals Unleashed: 7 Examples of Grassroots Change in Organizations | Humanizing Work Show
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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#107 Finding the Right Style For Your Leadership Team: Lessons from Take6 and Greg Popovich | Humanizing Work Show
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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#106 Overcoming Burnout through Daily Purpose & Vision
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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#105 How Coaches Benefit from PO Skills (plus how to develop yours)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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#104 Poor Backlog Refinement Is Burning $1000s Per Day
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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#103 Can Agile Even Work With This Business Model?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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#102 How Has Our Thinking On Scrum Changed?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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#101 Meetup Replay: A Path to Real Empowerment
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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#100 Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Humanizing Work Show
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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#99 Two Questions to Shift Stakeholders from Solution to Problem
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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#98 Making Sense of the ScrumMaster & Agile Coach Layoffs
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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#97 Great Facilitators Accomplish These 6 Goals
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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#96 3 Mistakes New Managers Make & 3 Things To Do Instead
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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#95 The Latest Viral Scrum Criticism: What’s Right About It?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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#94 Rethinking the Manager vs Leader Meme: What Really Matters?
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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#93: How Top Leaders Create Clarity: 6 Tips to Communicate Through Uncertainty
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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#92: The Top 5 Backlog Refinement Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes | Community Meetup Rebroadcast
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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#91: Navigating Commitments, Focus, and Flexibility: Insights from Scrum’s Abnormal Sprint Termination
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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#90 Purposeful Quick Wins: How to Get Momentum without Avoiding the Hard Stuff
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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#89 Collaboration and Coordination are NOT the Same Thing – Here’s Why It Matters
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#88: On "The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem”
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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#87: My Stakeholders Want It All Right Now!
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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#86: I Can’t Get My Team to Collaborate!
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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#85: The Leadership Circle, Our Favorite Leadership Development Tool
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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#84: Lee McCormack on rules of the joy ride, what makes a great coach, and finding meaning beyond ego
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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#83: Do we need a sprint goal?
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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#82: Visionary vs Facilitating Product Ownership
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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#81: Designing Good Experiments
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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#80: Senior Leadership Challenges in Agile Orgs (featuring Melissa Boggs)
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May 30, 2023 |
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#79: The One Where Peter Apologizes to the CEO
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May 21, 2023 |
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#78: A Tool to Get Unstuck in a Frustrating Situation
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May 15, 2023 |
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#77: They’re All Customers
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May 08, 2023 |
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#76: The 15 minutes that reveal the health of your team
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May 01, 2023 |
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#75: How does my work as a developer change in Scrum?
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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#74: How much of Scrum should be standardized across teams?
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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#73: What do I focus on as a new Product Owner?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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#72: What do I focus on as a new ScrumMaster?
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#71: Culture Signals
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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#70: Scrum Roles in the Real World
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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#69: Should Managers Be In Retrospectives?
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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#68: Dealing with Interruptions on a Scrum Team
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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#67: A Path to Real Empowerment for Teams
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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#66: Sprint Review Agenda
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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#65: Feature Mining Q&A
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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#64: Seven Skills All Great Coaches Master
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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#63: These Six Things Improve How Teams Work
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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#62: The Secret to Easier Prioritization
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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#61: Two Key Moves for Better Sprint Retrospectives
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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#60: Effective Sprint Reviews
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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#59: How To Have a More Effective Daily Scrum Tomorrow
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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#58: Effective Sprint Planning
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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#57: Why Scrum works when it works
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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#56: What’s Management’s Job When Teams Are Empowered?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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How do you split a “technical story”?
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Healthy Way To Do Commitments & Accountability
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Mark Ethier, founder of iZotope
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Making & Communicating Decisions in Uncertainty with the 3ID Pattern
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Melissa Boggs: Changing the Rules for Work
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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The Surgeon General Has Something to Say About Humanizing Work
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Measuring the Success of Agile Adoption
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Couch to Running 45 Miles Across the Grand Canyon
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Participant's Key Takeaways from the 2022 Humanizing Work Conference
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Vivian Rhoads on Agile Innovation for Consumer Packaged Goods
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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PO Board Overview–How to reduce stress and overwork for Product Owners
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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The Problem with the Phrase "Don't Bring Me Problems, Bring Me Solutions"
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Five Lessons in Career Development Peter Learned in his Career
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Do we really need a retrospective every sprint?
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Having Uncomfortable Conversations on a Team
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Why the Effort to Humanize Work Is Worth It
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Deep Dive–A Breakthrough in Hiring
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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How Does A "User Manual For Me" Work In Practice?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Does Everything in our Backlog need to be a User Story?
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Why We Don't Love the Five Whys
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Overcoming Resistance to Change
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Team engagement doesn't benefit from "Enforced Team Fun”
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Why we don't like epics for agile teams
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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The Peter Principle: Is management doomed to be incompetent?
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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What’s the right size for an agile team? (Mailbag)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Nicole Forsythe on Career Transitions, Agile Coaching, and Antarctic Exploration
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Grilling next week's chicken (or how to get people to work outside their specialty)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Africa WTPO Conference Recap (Snapshots)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Laloux Culture Model Update 2022
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May 17, 2022 |
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User Story Fatigue (Mailbag)
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May 10, 2022 |
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When People Don't Participate In Retros (Mailbag)
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May 03, 2022 |
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How To Get Useful Feedback
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Complexity and Cross-Geo Teams
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Prioritizing For The Day | A Humanizing Work Company Snapshot
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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March 2022 Community of Practice Recap
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Luke Hohmann on Figure Skating, Innovation Games, and Participatory Budgeting
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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What Goes on a Management Team Backlog? (Mailbag)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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How to choose a pilot team (Mailbag)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Dealing with Unrealistic Deadlines on an Agile Team (Mailbag)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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S2E5: How Tools Like Scrum and XP Help Create Real Teams
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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S2E4: Adobe Audition Team Reunion
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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S2E3: What Kills Great Teams, and What Can You Do About It?
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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S2E2: Jazz, Teams, and Work
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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S2E1: Most Great Work Happens in Teams
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May 08, 2019 |
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S1E5: Why the Humanizing Work Movement is Emerging Now
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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S1E4: We Are Built To Grow!
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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S1E3: What’s My Motivation Here?
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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S1E2: The Link Between Flow, Ease, and Meaning at Work
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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S1E1: What is Humanizing Work?
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Feb 21, 2019 |