Conversational Transformation

Squirrel rants about matrix management and then Jeffrey calms him down by describing self-managing team structures that work better.

Squirrel tweets about isolated data-science teams, and Jeffrey tells stories of close collaboration between engineers and data scientists, even pairing!

Our old friend Chris Clearfield explains how he helps leaders identify and fix overwhelmingly complicated organisational problems.

If your developers don't care about customers, Pixar has something to show you.

Putting the new employee in charge of onboarding actually improves the result.

Vasco Duarte, master of Scrum, issues a call to arms for all scrum masters: you have nothing to lose but your estimates and feature factories!

Aiming to win robs you of valuable information

Unilateral action risks leaving out vital information

In an episdoe with Alan Weiss we find out why language controls business, how us engineers can drive strategy by emphasizing results and not technology , and what tough love is and why it's so effective.

In the second of a two-part series, Johan Abildskov of Eficode has a conversation with Jeffrey and Squirrel about tools for using conversations to implement agile and DevOps methods, including Test-Driven Development for People.

In the first of a two-part series, Johan Abildskov of Eficode has a conversation with Jeffrey and Squirrel about culture, transparency and curiosity.

We discuss two very different stories about leaders that communicate a cultural message pithily and clearly, and reflect on why these stories were effective and how all of us can communicate culture in this way.