Latest Episodes
August 28, 2023
#93: How Top Leaders Create Clarity: 6 Tips to Communicate Through Uncertainty
Leaders walk a tightrope, creating clarity for teams with an inspiring vision while acknowledging the uncertainty of future predictions. In this episode, Peter delves...
00:11:03
August 21, 2023
#92: The Top 5 Backlog Refinement Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes | Community Meetup Rebroadcast
Backlog refinement is critical for any agile team—if your backlog isn’t in good shape, everything downstream falls apart. But there’s a common set of...
00:49:28
August 14, 2023
#91: Navigating Commitments, Focus, and Flexibility: Insights from Scrum’s Abnormal Sprint Termination
Scrum’s rarely used “Abnormal Sprint Termination” rule can help a team strike a nice balance between the need to focus, the need to be...
00:16:44
August 07, 2023
#90 Purposeful Quick Wins: How to Get Momentum without Avoiding the Hard Stuff
In this episode, Richard and Peter talk about quick wins, how they often emphasize the quick part but miss the win, and what to...
00:07:37
July 31, 2023
#89 Collaboration and Coordination are NOT the Same Thing – Here’s Why It Matters
In this episode, Richard explains the distinction between collaborating and coordinating, when to do one or the other, and the implications for team structure,...
00:08:42
July 24, 2023
#88: On "The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem”
In this episode, Richard and Peter discuss an article in Business Insider, “The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem.” They discuss the incentives...
00:20:09