First Drafts.
“For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, 1994.
Group Customer Interviewing Practice
TL;DR: Building the muscles for doing customer interviewing can be a fun group exercise.
A Minimal Viable Change Readiness Assessment
TL;DR: Look for people expecting a Long-Term Change to address a Problem. Avoid people demanding a Quick-Fix Additive Solution.
Don't Track Tasks. Track Interruptions.
TL;DR: Instead of tracking your time, try tracking the interruptions instead.
The Surface Area of Grief
TL;DR: The people in my life who've died with a large digital/networked footprint appear in my life so much more often without me prompting it. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it can feel intrusive.
Bad People Do The Thing You Love
TL;DR: If you think My Discipline is Good, and Other Discipline is Bad then you are fooling yourself — and avoiding the work that needs to be done to make things better.
Scrum Doesn't Say…
TL;DR: Scrum, at its core, is a really minimal process improvement framework. Understanding how that framework is put together will help you deal with the ghastly stretch-goal, velocity tracking, eighty-hour-work-week monstrosity that’s often labelled Scrum.
One Approach to Beating Conference Stage Fright
TL;DR: Attack the stage-fright separately from the presenting
Two Useful Prompts to Explore Intent & Behaviour
TL;DR: Asking "What other possible explanations could there be?" followed up by "How could we find out whether those explanations are true or false?" is a better approach than "assume positive intent".
Facilitating Your First Wardley Mapping Session
TL;DR: Get alignment on the anchor for the value chain. Independently generate value chain components to get as many perspectives as possible. Merge components and align on a final value chain. Then align components relatively along the commoditisation dimension.
