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

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.

Elders of the Tribe

Elders of the Tribe

Effective executives draw on extensive battle scars for guidance and insight.

How to Not Do Everything

How to Not Do Everything

Tech teams operate best with clearly defined "negative space" that's not in scope - and leaders are more receptive to defining it than they think.

Bench Sweeps

Bench Sweeps

Your niggling worries and minor observations are "bench sweeps", valuable dust that are worth refining into gold.

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