All Episodes

#110 How to Set the Right Goals for 2024 | Humanizing Work Show

#109 When Your Team Inspects But Doesn’t Adapt

#108 Culture Signals Unleashed: 7 Examples of Grassroots Change in Organizations | Humanizing Work Show

#107 Finding the Right Style For Your Leadership Team: Lessons from Take6 and Greg Popovich | Humanizing Work Show

#106 Overcoming Burnout through Daily Purpose & Vision

#105 How Coaches Benefit from PO Skills (plus how to develop yours)

#104 Poor Backlog Refinement Is Burning $1000s Per Day

#103 Can Agile Even Work With This Business Model?

#102 How Has Our Thinking On Scrum Changed?

#101 Meetup Replay: A Path to Real Empowerment

#100 Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Humanizing Work Show

#99 Two Questions to Shift Stakeholders from Solution to Problem

#98 Making Sense of the ScrumMaster & Agile Coach Layoffs

#97 Great Facilitators Accomplish These 6 Goals

#96 3 Mistakes New Managers Make & 3 Things To Do Instead

#95 The Latest Viral Scrum Criticism: What’s Right About It?

#94 Rethinking the Manager vs Leader Meme: What Really Matters?

#93: How Top Leaders Create Clarity: 6 Tips to Communicate Through Uncertainty

#92: The Top 5 Backlog Refinement Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes | Community Meetup Rebroadcast

#91: Navigating Commitments, Focus, and Flexibility: Insights from Scrum’s Abnormal Sprint Termination

#90 Purposeful Quick Wins: How to Get Momentum without Avoiding the Hard Stuff

#89 Collaboration and Coordination are NOT the Same Thing – Here’s Why It Matters

#88: On "The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem”

#87: My Stakeholders Want It All Right Now!

#86: I Can’t Get My Team to Collaborate!

#85: The Leadership Circle, Our Favorite Leadership Development Tool

#84: Lee McCormack on rules of the joy ride, what makes a great coach, and finding meaning beyond ego

#83: Do we need a sprint goal?

#82: Visionary vs Facilitating Product Ownership

#81: Designing Good Experiments

#80: Senior Leadership Challenges in Agile Orgs (featuring Melissa Boggs)

#79: The One Where Peter Apologizes to the CEO

#78: A Tool to Get Unstuck in a Frustrating Situation

#77: They’re All Customers

#76: The 15 minutes that reveal the health of your team

#75: How does my work as a developer change in Scrum?

#74: How much of Scrum should be standardized across teams?

#73: What do I focus on as a new Product Owner?

#72: What do I focus on as a new ScrumMaster?

#71: Culture Signals

#70: Scrum Roles in the Real World

#69: Should Managers Be In Retrospectives?

#68: Dealing with Interruptions on a Scrum Team

#67: A Path to Real Empowerment for Teams

#66: Sprint Review Agenda

#65: Feature Mining Q&A

#64: Seven Skills All Great Coaches Master

#63: These Six Things Improve How Teams Work

#62: The Secret to Easier Prioritization

#61: Two Key Moves for Better Sprint Retrospectives

#60: Effective Sprint Reviews

#59: How To Have a More Effective Daily Scrum Tomorrow

#58: Effective Sprint Planning

#57: Why Scrum works when it works

#56: What’s Management’s Job When Teams Are Empowered?

How do you split a “technical story”?

The Healthy Way To Do Commitments & Accountability

Mark Ethier, founder of iZotope

Making & Communicating Decisions in Uncertainty with the 3ID Pattern

Melissa Boggs: Changing the Rules for Work

The Surgeon General Has Something to Say About Humanizing Work

Measuring the Success of Agile Adoption

Couch to Running 45 Miles Across the Grand Canyon

Participant's Key Takeaways from the 2022 Humanizing Work Conference

Vivian Rhoads on Agile Innovation for Consumer Packaged Goods

PO Board Overview–How to reduce stress and overwork for Product Owners

The Problem with the Phrase "Don't Bring Me Problems, Bring Me Solutions"

Five Lessons in Career Development Peter Learned in his Career

Do we really need a retrospective every sprint?

Having Uncomfortable Conversations on a Team

Why the Effort to Humanize Work Is Worth It

Deep Dive–A Breakthrough in Hiring

How Does A "User Manual For Me" Work In Practice?

Does Everything in our Backlog need to be a User Story?

Why We Don't Love the Five Whys

Overcoming Resistance to Change

Team engagement doesn't benefit from "Enforced Team Fun”

Why we don't like epics for agile teams

The Peter Principle: Is management doomed to be incompetent?

What’s the right size for an agile team? (Mailbag)

Nicole Forsythe on Career Transitions, Agile Coaching, and Antarctic Exploration

Grilling next week's chicken (or how to get people to work outside their specialty)

Africa WTPO Conference Recap (Snapshots)

Laloux Culture Model Update 2022

User Story Fatigue (Mailbag)

When People Don't Participate In Retros (Mailbag)

How To Get Useful Feedback

Complexity and Cross-Geo Teams

Prioritizing For The Day | A Humanizing Work Company Snapshot

March 2022 Community of Practice Recap

Luke Hohmann on Figure Skating, Innovation Games, and Participatory Budgeting

What Goes on a Management Team Backlog? (Mailbag)

How to choose a pilot team (Mailbag)

Dealing with Unrealistic Deadlines on an Agile Team (Mailbag)

S2E5: How Tools Like Scrum and XP Help Create Real Teams

S2E4: Adobe Audition Team Reunion

S2E3: What Kills Great Teams, and What Can You Do About It?

S2E2: Jazz, Teams, and Work

S2E1: Most Great Work Happens in Teams

S1E5: Why the Humanizing Work Movement is Emerging Now