Private Consulting
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.
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.
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.
Two T-shirts, one saying "How" on the front and "Dead" on the back, the other saying "What" on the front and "Lines" on the back, as explained in our "Two-Shirt Solution podcast episode". Specify small, medium, or large.
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.
The book that started it all. Step by step instructions for transforming your culture by transforming your conversations. Signed by Jeffrey or Squirrel.
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.
Learn How Difficult Conversations Unlock Successful Digital, Agile, Devops and Lean
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.
MIT Sloan Management Review How to break down the technology "walled garden" through better conversations and cultural transformation.
Your organisation is probably wasting most of what it spends on agile training. You need better conversations, not more rituals.
Why top-down transformation initiatives fail and what to do about it.
Seek productive conflict to improve your agile results.
Working remotely can actually help you study and improve your conversations. We show you how.
Why difficult conversations trump meaningless rituals in digital transformations.
Jeffrey describes a new idea from Marquet, the division between "red work" and "blue work." We discuss how to balance these methods, and when imbalance might be useful.
Squirrel notices some coaching clients prefer to work much harder rather than discuss trust issues. We describe ways you can overcome this habit.
Squirrel and Jeffrey ponder the lessons of their youth and ask if such a fast moving industry has no time to learn from the past?
Squirrel and Jeffrey develop a metaphor describing effective product alignment, and suggest some ways to apply and misapply it.
Jeffrey contrasts common organizational dynamics. Squirrel worried "product-led" could leave out important opportunities to bring everyone in. We settle on "product-aligned."
Squirrel and Jeffrey describe Marquet's "Psychological Ownership" and how it goes beyond the "turn signal" they've previously advocated for.
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.
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.
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.
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.