User Story Fatigue (Mailbag)
A course participant recently asked, “Is user story fatigue a real thing?” Richard and Peter tackle that question and try to get at the question behind the question. If it feels like user stories are ...
10 Maj 20227min
When People Don't Participate In Retros (Mailbag)
In this episode, Richard and Peter answer the question: “What should I do if people won’t participate in retros?” It can feel like you’re failing as a facilitator, but sometimes there’s more going on....
3 Maj 20227min
How To Get Useful Feedback
Most people know how useful feedback can be. But the actual experience of getting feedback is so often ineffective or even painful. In this episode, Richard and Peter answer the question, "How do you ...
26 Apr 20229min
Complexity and Cross-Geo Teams
Our standard advice is that we should structure teams to contain complexity. Complex work is inherently emergent, and you need close collaboration with team members to address that emergence effective...
19 Apr 20229min
Prioritizing For The Day | A Humanizing Work Company Snapshot
Humanizing Work Snapshots are brief episodes where we share examples of the ways we’re working to humanizing our own complex work. In this episode, the Humanizing Work team reflects on an example of h...
12 Apr 20227min
March 2022 Community of Practice Recap
We host four Humanizing Work Communities of Practice. On the first Friday of each month, alumni of our annual conference meet to stay connected and dig into advanced topics about humanizing their work...
6 Apr 20226min
Luke Hohmann on Figure Skating, Innovation Games, and Participatory Budgeting
In this episode, Peter and Richard talk with Luke Hohmann, best known as the creator of Innovation Games. We discuss how Luke moved from high-level figure skating into software development, how Innova...
4 Apr 20221h 7min
What Goes on a Management Team Backlog? (Mailbag)
Sometimes a management team decides they want to use something like Scrum to organize their own work. But they’re not building a product, so what should their backlog look like? In this mailbag episod...
29 Mars 20227min
