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A Make-A-Wish That Turned Into a Gift for Others
When Karina’s Make-A-Wish moment arrived, she didn’t ask for a trip or a celebrity meet-and-greet. Instead she asked to create a day for other sick kids — a place where they could forget hospitals and treatments for a while. Make-A-Wish marked Karina’s request as their historic 500,000th wish and worked with partners to turn it into a virtual “camp” experience so many children could p...
The Heart of New Leadership is Curiosity
Most of us are drawn to rules and limits. They give us a sense of safety. Structure and predictability offer comfort: we know what to expect, and what’s expected of us. For a while, this feels like stability. But in truth, it often leads to stagnation.
The artist doesn’t value safety and smallness. The artist values discovery. To create something new, you have to step beyond the known.
The same...
Is your team moving in sync—or spinning in circles? - Mike Cohn
Ever feel like your agile team should be working smoothly—but something’s just a bit off? Handoffs feel clunky. Meetings drag. Even small changes spark big debates.
It’s not that your team isn’t skilled—it’s that you’re not quite in sync.
Rowers have a word for the alignment you’re seeking: swing.
What is swing?
In crew rowing, swing is that near-magical mom...
Today we remember Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry - Happy Veterans Day
On May 26, 2008, in Paktya Province, Afghanistan, Army Ranger Leroy A. Petry and his team were ambushed. During the firefight an enemy grenade landed near Petry and several fellow Rangers. Without hesitation Petry grabbed the grenade and attempted to throw it away from the group. The grenade detonated as he was throwing it; Petry survived but lost his right hand. His ...
How To Align Your Team Before Year-End - 5 Things You Must Do NOW!
1. Call Out the Elephant in the Room
2. Don’t Let the Momentum Stall
3. Run an Assets & Liabilities Exercise
4. Revisit Your Purpose Statement
5. Consider a Design Sprint
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The Hand Written Letter of Gratitude
In a classroom study, students were asked to write a heartfelt letter of thanks to someone who had helped them and then read that letter aloud to the person in a surprise face-to-face meeting. The scene that followed — the surprised, emotional reactions from the recipients and the visible pride and relief on the students’ faces — was unforgettable. Beyond the moment, the students reported lasting...
How Do we GROW? - Getting People on The Same Page!
Do you know the Acronym GROW?
G = Goals
R = Reality
O = Options, Opportunities, and Obstacles
W = What We Will Commit to do First...
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Are You Protecting Your Team Against the Right Thing? - Mike Cohn
A lot has been written and said about the responsibility of a Scrum Master to protect the team.
Examples of protecting the team typically involve running interference with well-meaning but overzealous product owners, stakeholders, and managers. Teams run into trouble all the time from people who want it all now or who keep adding more work in the middle or a sprint...
No, Product Management Isn’t Useless — You’re Just Doing It Wrong
If you think PMs just write tickets and slow things down, you haven’t seen product management done right.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard some version of this:
“Do we even need product managers anymore?”
Usually, it comes after a failed launch, a bloated backlog, or a roadmap that reads like a Frankenstein wishlist stitched together by six depart...
The Scrum Master Role Is Disappearing - Or Is It?
The layoffs of 2023 told a story that few in the tech industry wanted to acknowledge. Among the 120,000+ tech workers who lost their jobs, Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches were disproportionately represented. But this wasn’t just about economic belt-tightening it was the culmination of a quiet revolution that’s been brewing for years.
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Trick-or-treaters Leave Their Halloween Candy For Child Battling Leukemia
A search for hope at the end of this very anxious week led me to this humble bundle. Zoe, 3, is the proud product of TJ and Courtney Thomas of Atlanta, Georgia.
Back in February, Zoe was diagnosed with leukemia. And because her immune system is now compromised, she couldn't go trick-or-treating on Halloween with all the other kids. In fact, her parents eve...
Witch’s Brew of Metrics — Don’t Let Vanity Hex Your Team
Metric definition template
Name:
What it measures:
Owner:
Frequency:
Thresholds / signals:
Action when threshold met:
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Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things At You...
5 micro-rituals (practical)
Purpose line on invite — one sentence: “Decision needed / Sync / Info.”
Time-boxed agenda — 3 bullets with owner & minutes.
No Rotating facilitator — prevent single-person theater.
Two-minute rule — speakers over two minutes get a “parking lot” nudge.
Outcome artifact — one sentence note added to the meeting invite that records decisions.
How...
The Phantom Sprint — Invisible Work That Steals Velocity
Your sprint looks healthy — until a phantom dependency eats your finish line. Here’s how to find the invisible work before the demo.
Detection & prevention tactics
Dependency board: visible KANBAN lane for external asks with owners and ETA.
Capacity buffer: protect 10–20% of sprint for unplanned but likely work.
Pre-planning checkpoint: 5-min readout with ops/support to su...
The Haunted Backlog — When Old Stories Won’t Die
Triage: Mark backlog items > 90 days old as “graveyard candidates.”
Reframe: Turn vague epics into a one-sentence outcome + metric. If you can’t, bury it.
Timebox an experiment: If still valuable, create a 1-week spike with a clear success metric.
Assign ownership: No owner = forever ghost. Give it to someone accountable for outcome vs. activity.
Retire ritual: Monthly “retire or r...
A Chad Gymnast Scores Top Marks For Determination
The wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And yet Achta Derib’s pose in this photograph by Antonio López Díaz, a finalist in the professional sports category at the Sony world photography awards, suggests reserves of determination that will carry her across continents to perform at the highest levels of her sport.
How to connect with A...
Stop Worshipping Product Roadmaps
A few years ago, I sat through a two-hour planning session where we debated every line of a shiny new roadmap. By the end, we had a color-coded masterpiece: features neatly slotted by quarter, dependencies tracked, and timelines locked...
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The Only Three Things You Must Do To Improve Agility - Mike Cohn
Distilled to its essence, it’s quite simple to be a Scrum Master, agile coach, or anyone seeking to improve team or organizational agility. There are only three things you need to do and Saint Francis laid them out succinctly over 800 years ago:
To improve agility, we have to start with what’s necessary. Change practices that go against agile principles. If pr...
Agile Estimation: Relative vs. Absolute
Estimation in Agile isn’t about predicting the future — it’s about creating a shared understanding of work. Whether you’re planning a sprint or sizing up your backlog, you’re not aiming for perfect accuracy. You’re trying to get close enough to make smart decisions as a team.
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Scrum Theatre and the Agile Illusion
Imagine your team having a perfect stand-up. Everyone’s smiling, and it seems like everything is going smoothly. Everyone says that they do not have any blockers for today and that all’s well. Each person on the team is relaxed, and your Scrum Master is grinning from ear to ear.
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