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2024

Effective Portfolio Management Work: A Practical Framework 📋

Ready to implement Portfolio Management? Here is a simple pattern.
From Project Tetris to Effective Teams: Portfolio Management Principles 🎯🔍️

Principles before practice
Do you suffer from Modern Project Tetris?

All Projects are Important ...Everything must be started now. (Only a little sarcasm)
Why Your ScrumMaster Shouldn't Fear AI (Unless They're Just a Ticket Jockey)

The Theory of Constraints Meets AI: What You need to know
Writing the Wrong Code Faster is Not a Superpower!

Are Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude Leading us down the wrong path?
Burnout and My Personal Journey

Neil Young is wrong. It's not better to Burnout
Can GenAI Actually Improve Developer Productivity?

LLMs Optimizing the wrong thing faster..
NotebookLLM is not yet a miracle worker

...Steven Johnson promises miracles
NotebookLLM: The Promise of Efficiency or Just a rusty set of shears?

we explore whether NotebookLLM lives up to its promise
ScrumMasters moonlighting and taking two jobs?

...just gross
Product Owners - Your End Users Aren't Embracing Your Product - 5 Proven Strategies to get Unstuck

All change starts by understanding where the resistance comes from
Product Owners - Five Reasons Your End Users Aren't Embracing Your Product

Learn why even the best products can be met with resistance from end users
8 Ways Agile Managers and Scrum Product Owners Squander Their Influence

...and the First Change You Can Make to Gain It Back
Agile Managers, Pay Now, Benefit Later: How the Cost Benefit Timing Gap Undermines Your Influence

Quick wins are like junk food—learn how to overcome Gap without eating more sugar
Stuck in Neutral? Agile Managers: Strategies to Tackle the Endowment Effect

Overcoming the Endowment Effect. Show why sticking to the safe and known can be more expensive in the long run.
Why Your QA Team Resists Change. (Hint it's not just the QA dept).

Endowment leads to inaction 😩
A Plague of False Connections and LinkedIn Spam

My commitment, clients and not people to exploited for extra $$$
Is Your Product Sinking with the Sunk Cost Fallacy?

Find the Escape Hatch
Triggering Reactance Without Even Trying

The Mistakes Agile Managers Make While Trying to Influence
From Bus Rides to Influence: My 20-Year Journey Through the Literature

Dive into my favorite influence reads – they’re better than watching cat videos.
Using Influence to go from Spoon-Fed to Self-Managed Teams

A few ways to influence your team towards self-management, without needing a magic wand.
Top Ten Reasons Scrum Teams Avoid Self Management - Cue David Letterman

Discover why your team prefers playing Follow the Leader
Drowning in Documentation: When Do We Actually Get to Work?

Reduce waste through influence and collaboration
Using Empathy to Influence Change in Your Organization

Empathy-driven insights can bridge gaps and lead to...
Navigating Agile Theatre: Escaping The Accountability Trap

Bridge the gap between Agile principles and management's demand for detailed individual tracking and accountability
From Bluster to Influence My Story: A Lesson for Agile Managers and ProductOwners

Discover how my expert advice landed like a lead balloon, and what I learned about influence the hard way
The Hidden Art of Agile Influence: Empowering Agile Leaders in 30 Days

From Begging and Stick Handling to Influence
Ship30For30 Commitment: Influence and Effective Scrum

My commitment for Aug and Sept 2024

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