Agile vs Lean vs Design Thinking
There’s an unforgettable scene in my favorite movie, Goodfellas, where Joe Pesci, Robert DeNiro and Ray Liotta pay a late night visit to Pesci’s mom. Despite their best efforts to leave quickly she...
View ArticleAgile vs Lean vs Design Thinking
I had the pleasure of speaking in London last week at Mind the Product. It’s a twice annual gathering of product managers and their colleagues that attracts nearly 1500 attendees. Given the location,...
View ArticleHow Blending Lean, Agile, and Design Thinking Will Transform Your Team
Building a stronger workflow for developers, designers, and product managers leads to better cross-team collaboration — and better products. The following is an adapted excerpt from Lean vs. Agile vs....
View ArticleMinimum Viable Conversation
Sense & Respond Press is thrilled to announce the launch of our second book, Making Progress: The 7 Responsibilities of the Innovation Leader by Ryan Jacoby. This concise, beautiful, actionable...
View ArticleOffice Hours: A New Way to Collaborate
Over the past several years, as I’ve been building my coaching and consulting business, I’ve received a lot of feedback from teams who, for one reason or another, were not in a position to take...
View ArticleThe top 10 rebuttals to: “Agile is great. But it won’t work here.”
At this point in its lifecycle, Agile is in the mass adoption phase. Whenever I’m in front of an audience or teaching a workshop and I ask, “How many of you work using Agile processes?” 100% of the...
View ArticleTuring Fest Masterclass – Lean, Agile & Design Thinking: Principles over...
Half-day masterclass as part of Turingfest in Edinburgh, Scotland. Super low-cost event so it will sell out fast.
View ArticleLive Online Class: Product Discovery for Agile Teams – November 2019
Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden have teamed up to create this brand new, hands-on, small group and highly-interactive live online course. Class size is deliberately small to ensure a high levels of...
View ArticleProfessional Scrum with UX 2-Day Workshop (Scrum.org Certified) – Madrid
Design work sometimes feels slow, and not well suited to quick agile cadences and Scrum events. Learn UX techniques that fit beautifully into Scrum, and practice these techniques with a cross...
View ArticleWithout psychological safety there is no learning and there is no agility
If teams don’t feel safe sharing what they’ve learned, they’ll never be agile. Psychological safety ensures teams doing discovery can implement the feedback they learn in the process anda truly be agile.
View ArticleConstraints are the hidden source of innovation
There are always excuses for why our teams can’t innovate or be agile. Constraints shouldn’t be one of them. In fact, they can be the source of these desired qualities. Here’s why.
View ArticleBecoming Forever Employable: Demo Day 1
How do you plant your flag and start telling compelling stories that cement your position of expertise in the market? Here’s how four folks did it.
View ArticleHumility is the key to agile culture
Humility is the key to leading and building agile teams and organizations. Here’s why.
View ArticleHow to inspire creativity and innovation with one simple prompt
If you're not getting the kind of creativity and innovation you know your team can deliver, reframe your requests to them in this one simple way.
View ArticleWhy your scrum team needs a dedicated designer
Scrum teams fail without dedicated designers. Here’s why.
View ArticleThe Work
There’s so much more to product development than writing code. Here is what The Work consists of and why you should make time to do it.
View ArticleBottom-up? Or Top-down? What’s the best way to set OKRs?
Don’t assume that telling your teams what their OKR goals should be is the best approach. Here’s a better way.
View ArticleHow to prioritize hypotheses for testing
This short video explains how to use the hypothesis prioritization canvas to determine which hypotheses you should test.
View ArticleInspect and adapt, with respect
We all know go to the gemba tell us to go and see and we inspect and adapt. But there’s another part to it — showing respect to the people we seek to improve. Here’s why.
View ArticlePlanting Season vs Harvest Season
Businesses are cyclical. Thinking about when you're going to plant vs harvest ensures we've always got new ideas to try and grow.
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