Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
Your team's process for managing a backlog is probably growing stale because you are running on habit rather than procedure.Break out of procedure and remind yourself why you have a process to begin w...
9 Marras 202312min
Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
What is it about our present situation that changes our perspective? In today's episode we talk about the availability bias and why our present reality looms so large in our decisionmaking.🎙 SponsorT...
3 Marras 202317min
Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
What do you expect of yourself? Are you spending your time in ways that align with those expectations?In this episode, I provide you a simple framework as a starting lens for getting a better idea of ...
26 Loka 202314min
What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener
Almost every conversation you have will start with a question.Have you stopped to listen closely? Questions are extremely meaningful and deeply human. Paying close attention to questions is a skill th...
21 Loka 20239min
Backlog Psychology - Fix Your Broken Expectations
How often does reality match your expectations exactly? Sure, you may guess in the ball park, but usually there are errors in our expectations.In today's episode, I talk about a simple shift in thinki...
12 Loka 20238min
Backlog Psychology - Practice Requires Rhythmic Predictability
In this episode we continue a little mini-series called "Backlog psychology."How do you get better at anything? (Hopefully you said "practice" almost instinctively.) What does good practice look like?...
3 Loka 20238min
Backlog Psychology - Hyperbolic Discounting, Tech Debt, and Hacking Your Habits
In this episode we continue the mini-series "Backlog psychology."Would you rather have $5 now or $50 next week? The answer to this question, though it seems logically obvious which is better, does not...
21 Syys 202316min
Backlog Psychology - The Ziegarnik Effect - Why Limiting Work In Progress Protects Your Cognitive Load
In this episode we kick off a little mini-series called "Backlog psychology."You've heard you should "limit your work in progress" - why? What makes more work in progress more difficult to handle?Cogn...
17 Syys 20235min
