Small Shifts, Big Impact: Transforming Portfolio Management without the Cliff Dive
Transform portfolio management with small, strategic shifts—clear noise, create space, and make change sustainable to get evolution without a revolution!
Essentials for Effective LPM
This article describes 10 essential behaviors necessary to get sustained impact from Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and why they are important.
Crafting Clarity: Using Feature Templates to Shape and Communicate Intent
A good canvas prompts you to examine a series of questions and then distill the answers you discover. The result should avoid distracting details and synthesize critical information to anchor rich discussions. This canvas has helped many product teams I've coached improve their features.
Understanding and changing your constraints
Three types of system constraints: A human perspective on understanding and resolving constraints in Lean, Agile and Kanban Systems.
What is executive commitment, really?
One consultant's toolkit: how to prepare for conversations with executives to get their support and avoid resistance.
How do I process empathy interview results as part of a facilitation team?
Processing results requires extra work when part of a facilitation team. This overviews some of the extra steps that are required
What do I ask in an Empathy Interview?
Crafting effective interview questions involves understanding the workshop's purpose, the attendee's journey, and avoiding accusatory or self-centered ones.
Are you ready for your empathy interviews?
Prepare for effective empathy interviews by scripting your opening, determining how to use the responses, clarifying roles within the interview team, and choosing a method for recording the results.
What is an empathy interview?
Empathy interviews help facilitators sense attendees' perspectives and concerns before workshops, ensuring valuable and impactful outcomes for everyone.
Shaping Agility for fun and... more fun!
Eric shares his view on what led to the community of Shaping Agility and lays out his view of the values that the community lives by.
Why two types of value streams?
Describes operational and development value streams (OVS, DVS) in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and explains the difference clearly for practitioners