Inclusion and Party Games: The Surprisingly Easy Way to Understand Exclusion
2020 has been a year. If the year was a person, it would be Leeroy Jenkins. One of the most heartening things to come out…
Backlogs of Waterdeep: There’s More Than 1 Path to Product Success
Worker placement games, like Lords of Waterdeep, offer multiple paths to victory with options to gain victory points. Going all on one type however is…
They Just Aren’t That Into You: Recruiting, Rejection, And How To Not Be A Jerk In 3 Easy Steps
Job hunting isn’t all that different from online dating. The excitement, dressing up to meet, awkward questions, rejections, and a whole lot of ghosting. On…
Defining an MVP Will Make You Go Cuckoo
I have briefly touched on MVPs before when discussing the Agile Transformation and their importance to the overall success of an Agile undertakings. When building…
Diversity Slots
In a tangent from typical tabletop games, I want to talk about casino games – specifically slot machines. If you have spent any time with…
Lost in Translation
We spend an awful lot of time (and $$) in Corporate America on Meyers Briggs and other personality typing tools in an effort to better…
Connection in an Isolating Age
Prior to these “unprecedented times” the tech space and project work was becoming more and more distributed across the globe. By and large, we have…
Descending into Madness: Agile Transformation (Part 2)
So the leadership team is on board with the fundamentals, at least in theory. You look at your team, and muster up the courage to…
Descending Into Madness: Agile Transformation (Part 1)
You’re a project sponsor and have owned a portfolio of work for years. You have a PMO staffed with certified PMPs. Waterfall is safe. It’s…
Deduction and Reduction: Making Lessons Learned Relevant Long After The Retro
Closing a sprint, phase, or project includes a meeting where the team comes together to talk about what went well, what went poorly, and what…