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Jeffrey and Squirrel are available to advise and coach your team and to drive your transformation and show your team how to use the power of conversations.

Printed Conversational Dojo Kit

10 GBP

Templates for 2- and 3-column conversational analyses and instructive exercises you can do to practise improving your conversations with a small group. Printed and shipped to you wherever you are.

Electronic Conversational Dojo Kit

Free!

Templates for 2- and 3-column conversational analyses and instructive exercises you can do to practise improving your conversations with a small group. Free digital download.

Agile Conversations - Signed Copy

Agile Conversations - Signed Copy

20 GBP

The book that started it all. Step by step instructions for transforming your culture by transforming your conversations. Signed by Jeffrey or Squirrel.

Transforming Conversations Audio Course

100 GBP

In this series of ten analyses, Jeffrey and Squirrel roleplay conversations that went wrong, then analyse them and demonstrate improvement. A digital download you can listen to anywhere. Under development; register interest and we’ll notify you when this product is ready.

Videos

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Introducing Agile Conversations

Introducing Agile Conversations

In our forthcoming book Agile Conversations, we argue that the main reason agile teams aren’t agile is that they forget to share valid information, have difficult conversations, and build relationships.

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Agile Training Is Not Enough

Your organisation is probably wasting most of what it spends on agile training. You need better conversations, not more rituals.

Toyota Kata Part 1

Toyota Kata Part 1

Boost team results by measuring carefully and using consistent methods to move toward your goal–with “scientific thinking”.

Root Causes

Root Causes

You've never been in a plane crash because accident investigations are blameless, but do you know how to run a blame-free postmortem?

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.

Testimonials

When Squirrel began working with us, the engineering team was full of talented and committed developers who lacked leadership and confidence. He helped to transform them into an energised, highly-focused team who now deliver high-quality product better and faster than I could have imagined.

Author avatar Paul Joyce, Founder, Geckoboard

I met Jeffrey at an unconference earlier this year and decided that I wanted to spend more time learning from him. Picture Patrick Swayze’s Point Break character — a wise Buddha who has seen it all… except that this one teaches you how to improve your agile practices.

Author avatar Randy Silver, Product Consultant and host of The Product Experience Podcast

Squirrel’s impact in just a few days a week was tremendous - not just in engineering, but in product, the senior team, and across the whole company. You can bring him almost any problem and he’ll write it down in his little notebook, then come back with a thoughtful solution. He made a huge difference every day at lostmy.name.

Author avatar Tal Oron, Founder, Lostmy.name

Frequently Asked Questions

We would encourage you to contact us on info@agileconversations.com to see how we can tailor a consulting package to suit your needs.

There are many ways to learn about Conversational Transformation for free, including our podcast, blog, and some of the events we appear at.

We welcome your comments! Please email info@agileconversations.com.

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