All Episodes

#209 Quarterly Planning Done Right

#208 The Surprising Move That Ended My Leadership Frustration

#207 A Better Way to Practice Gratitude

#206 Feature Mining: Find the Smart First Slice of a Big Complex Idea

#205 Three Strategies to Reduce the Pain of Cross-Team Dependencies

#204 The Life-Changing Focus of a Clean Backlog

#203 5 Research-Backed Ways to Say No Without Being a Jerk

#202 How to Run a Retrospective That Actually Improves Things (Ep 61 Rebroadcast)

#201 Scrum vs Kanban – When to Use Each (and Four Ways to Combine Them)

#200 Metrics, Trust, and Escaping the Status Report Trap

#199 How to Overcome Resistance to a Complexity-First Approach

#198 Presenting to Leadership? Here's How to Get Great Results

#197 Vibe Coding Gotchas to Watch Out For

#196 How to Fix Story Point Estimation

#195: Why Forecasting Works (and Estimating Fails)

#194 From Debate to Decision: Three Strategies to Keep Feedback Useful

#193 Using Deliberate Practice to Take Your Work From Good to Great

#192 PI Planning Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way

#191 How to Build a Calm, Supportive Culture (and Why It Works)

#190 Beyond Retrospectives: Team Resets Can Boost Productivity, Direction, and Connection

#189 Designing Work for Flow with Hollywood & Tech Exec Steven Puri

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#188 [REBROADCAST] How Mark Ethier Built a High-Performing Organization at iZotope

#187 Advice for Internal Product Owners

#186 Which Parts of Scrum are Essential

#185 Using Breakouts to Improve Team Meetings

#184 The Surprising Upside of Tough Feedback

#183 When Teams Get in a Rut, Great Facilitators Play a Wildcard

#182 The Top 3 Traits of Successful Leaders, & Quick Habits to Develop Them

#181 How to Give Feedback That’s True, Useful, and Kind

#180 Use a Team Empowerment Map to Fix Delegation Theater

#179 Agile Burnout? Two Ways to Reenergize Your Team

#178 Three Keys to Productive Backlog Refinement

#177 One Breakthrough Tip to Improve Each Scrum Meeting

#176 Great Strategy in a Complex World

#175 How to Split a User Story

#174 How to Make Change Management Joyful and Collaborative

#173 Making a Split Product Owner Role Work

#172 CAPED Phases 3-4: Creating Predictability While Keeping Adaptability

#171 CAPED Phase 2: The Secret to Planning Complex Work

#170 CAPED Phase 1–Complexity Aware Project Kickoffs

#169 CAPED: A Smarter Way to Plan Complex Work

#168 Should You Backfill That Leadership Role—or Rethink It?

#167 "But in the Real World...": Overcoming Resistance to Change

#166 Five Lessons to Build Stronger Trust at Work and Home

#165 Three Things You Need for Empowerment

#164 How the Progress Principle Can Help Your Goals Stick This Year

#163 Five Ways to Get Fired Up for 2025

#162 Leadership Lessons from the Vineyard: A Conversation with Steven Thompson

#161 4-Steps to Go From Resistance to Action

#160 Backlog Refinement: Avoiding the Detail Trap

#159 How to Run an Effective Year-End Retrospective

#158 How to Do Complexity Aware Annual Planning

#157 Are Product Owners & Product Managers the Same Thing?

#156 How to Make a Team Faster (Without Burning Out)

#155 How to Manage Deadlines in Agile

#154 Beyond the Spotify Model: CTO Kevin Goldsmith on Agile, Authority & Empowering Teams

#153 Behind the Scenes of a 50-Person Remote Retro

#152 Decision-Making in Consensus Cultures

#151 What Business Teams Can Learn From Jazz (Edited Rebroadcast)

#150 Dealing With 'But We Must!' Management

#149 Using Focused Conversations to Access Group Wisdom

#148 Streamlining Cross-Team Coordination: Save Time, Catch Details That Matter

#147 To Plan or Not to Plan?

#146 When Purpose and Strategy Don't Matter

#145 Projects Shouldn’t Start Green, They Should Earn It

#144 Giving Great Answers to Impromptu Questions: Richard’s Top Five Tips

#143 Daily Scrum Taking Too Long?

#142 Agile's Three Tribes: People, Performance, and Process

#141 Setting Team Goals: 5 Tips for Getting it Right

#140 The Fishbowl & the Psychological Costs of Agile

#139 Why Leadership Communication Fails and Three Strategies to Fix It

#138 How to Launch a Highly Effective Leadership Team

#137 5 Lessons from Music to Help You Succeed at Work | Humanizing Work Show

#136 Why You Should Amplify Your Amundsens and Dampen Your Shackletons

#135 The Duck Canopy Incident & Its Unexpected Lessons for Work

#134 Why Agile Jobs Are Vanishing, and What to Do About It | Humanizing Work Show

#133 Employee Engagement Is Terrible. Why It Matters and What Can Be Done.

#132 The Complex Boundary Between Product & Engineering Leadership

#131 Can’t fix it? Make it more visible

#130 How We Dealt with Resistance to Change

#129 Do Product Owners Do Strategy? Here’s What Actual POs Said

#128 How to Communicate Strategy with the Strategy Steps Canvas

#127 Burnout and Disengagement on Agile Teams

#126 Transforming a Bad Day: 4 Trail Strategies for the Office

#125 How to Make Your Process Fit Your Work

#124 How to Craft a Vision Statement That’s Not Just Corporate-Speak

#123 How to Tackle Your Business’s Biggest Risk with David J Bland

#122 How to Get Agile Team & Org Structure Right

#121 How to Get Useful Feedback on a Work-in-Progress

#120 Immunity to Change

#119 How an Incremental, Small Slice Approach Gives Real Progress

#118 Three tools to Resolve (Almost) Any Conflict

#117 What Leaders Need to Know About Leading Agile Teams

#116 What To Do When You’re Overcommitted and Feel Stuck

#115 Fix Your Meetings with DAVID

#114 Can We Train AI to Be a Business Coach?

#113 Alistair Cockburn on Use Cases & User Stories

#112 Cross-Functional Teams & Real-World Challenges | Humanizing Work Show

#111 Feature Hostage Negotiation with Dean Peters