Blog

Learn How Difficult Conversations Unlock Successful Digital, Agile, Devops and Lean Transformations

Greatest Hits - Learning Loops

Greatest Hits - Learning Loops

This week on Troubleshooting Agile, we bring you a bumper edition of 2022’s Summer Shorts - Learning Loops. Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss six learning loop topics in less than five minutes each.

No Vehicles in the Park

No Vehicles in the Park

"Scope" and "requirements" for software rely on a common understanding of basic concepts like "vehicles" or "names" but humans have no idea how to nail down those ideas.

Tindallgrams

Tindallgrams

One guy you've never heard of kept the Apollo moonshot on track - by holding great meetings and taking super notes. Do your ADRs and Notion pages measure up?

Teal Data Science

Teal Data Science

How can your organisation be simultaneously fast and collaborative? Foster willingness to fail successfully and collaboratively, while applying strong leadership and accountability.

One- and Two-Way Doors

One- and Two-Way Doors

How can you do risky experiments even in the most risk-averse organisations?

Practical Slowification

Practical Slowification

You know investing in skills or tech advancements will speed you up, but how to make it happen? Convincing your boss is all kinds of wrong!

Butterfly Ideas

Butterfly Ideas

Use a shared language to ensure good ideas for your product or team aren't crushed before they get a chance to live.

ChatGPT Teaches Us About Conversations

ChatGPT Teaches Us About Conversations

ChatGPT is a boring writer, but can be a fantastic teacher. This week on Troubleshooting agile, we discuss how you can use AI language models to learn how to have difficult conversations with colleagues and disappoint them helpfully.

Building a Platform Under Pressure

Building a Platform Under Pressure

Incompatible regulations, competing customers - this week, a listener in a government IT agency tells us about his team's difficult challenges.

© Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick. All rights reserved.