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Your Company Culture Starts with Recruiting. Don’t F*ck It Up. A lot of companies of late have been touting their incredible company culture. They extoll how their culture has enabled them to succeed and how people can have a lot of fun while co-creating products and services that their customers...

The O in OKR Should Also Trigger Outcomes (and Not Just Objectives) Hello everyone! Happy February. Happy Valentine’s Day! Happy New Year (lunar calendar, the year of the ox)! We’re in the middle of the first quarter in 2021. I’m hearing from friends and colleagues who I’ve worked with in...

Let Them Eat Cake How do you proceed to eat an entire elephant? One bite at a time. Wait – I thought this was a post on cake? Why are you talking about eating an elephant? Let me get to that in a moment. (Unless you made an elephant cake...

Things in 2020 I’m Bringing Into 2021 A lot of people want to forget 2020. For me, I’m bringing three things from 2020 into 2021. Happy New Year, folks! I know – it’s been a while since my last newsletter. To say that I’ve been busy is an understatement. The...

An Alternative Way to Teach, and Estimate with, Story Points I recently gave a lightning talk a few weeks ago at the Cambridge Agile Exchange MeetUp. The topic I covered was about an alternative way to teach and do story pointing. This alternative technique was something I came up with...

Was your business agile enough to respond to 2020? Hello again!  I can’t believe it’s October – the beginning of the fall season here in the northern hemisphere. I can’t believe time went by so quickly. It feels as if it were only yesterday when we had to go into...