“I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.” – Kanye West. Besides the fact that this is an amazing quote, the line perfectly describes what the last month of my life has been like. My workload in the office can simply be described as “over-extended”. Bottle Rocket was extremely busy in the […]
Read more "How I Made My Hardest Month Of Work Easier"#Scaling I see that hashtag in my Twitter feed on an almost daily basis. Either from startup founders who want to grow their business more in the coming feed or from Agile leaders who want to help make their framework more consistent at the office. Scaling is big business right now because if you can […]
Read more "Some Things In Agile Don’t Scale"We are officially UX crazy, and for good reason. Software cares for users in a way I wasn’t sure was even possible, thanks to the litany of work done to care for them. I thought about it recently when I saw this amazing tweet: That is care in a nutshell. Empathy is not reached in […]
Read more "I’m Chris Murman, TX Strategist"Book tours can sometimes make for tough presentations. The author wants to whet the appetite of the audience to elicit more purchases without giving too much away. The audience wants to hear from the speaker about exciting topics without hearing the words “buy the book” more than once. Yet, when you have a speaker like […]
Read more "Don’t Let The Cuckoo Effect Ruin Your Organization"satisfice (ˈsadəsˌfīs) – verb – To accept an available option as satisfactory. Anyone who has cleaned their house recently knows the definition of this word. You didn’t pull out toothbrushes and spend all weekend on your hands and knees. You cleaned until you were satisfied with the state of whatever room you were in, and moved on. […]
Read more "‘Satisficing’ Is The Best Word Your Team Didn’t Know Existed"It is not an exaggeration to say that I have spent my entire life around coaches. I used to think it was because we just went to the church all coaches in my town attended as a child. Small town politics aside, it was more than that. My dad was just one of those dudes […]
Read more "Regardless Of The Sport, We Are All Coaches"Failure is a scary word in our work today. While the startup culture has embraced failure as the best learning took in the market, the word still has chilling effects on today’s business leaders. An Amazon search reveals over 22,000 books include the word “failure” in some fashion. Another few thousand can be added on this […]
Read more "How To Set Your Failure Up To Succeed"“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison Whether you are a team of one, or one hundred, we are presented with the daily opportunity to introduce positive change into our work environments. Asking tough questions is a challenge, to say the least, but it is also imperative […]
Read more "Am I The Only One With This Problem?"For the many flavors and leadership caucuses in the Agile community, it’s a wonder we all manage to get anything to a consensus these days. New scrum masters and product owners are being minted every day — in countries all over the world — often without much in the way of mentorship, and that has […]
Read more "How Do You Lead Without Power?"Having prided myself on being well read on industry information, I thought I knew how to have an intelligent conversation on analytics. I’ve pitched A/B testing in previous jobs, explained value-stream mapping, and collected more than my fair share of metrics on team success. With all of the sites devoted to gathering and analyzing feedback, […]
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