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Diversity & Community

Inclusion and Party Games: The Surprisingly Easy Way to Understand Exclusion

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on December 30, 2020

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…

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Backlogs of Waterdeep: There’s More Than 1 Path to Product Success

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on November 30, 2020

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…

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They Just Aren’t That Into You: Recruiting, Rejection, And How To Not Be A Jerk In 3 Easy Steps

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on October 9, 2020

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…

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Defining an MVP Will Make You Go Cuckoo

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on September 19, 2020

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…

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Diversity Slots

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on August 22, 2020

In a tangent from typical tabletop games, I want to talk about casino games – specifically slot machines. If you have spent any time with…

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Lost in Translation

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on July 18, 2020

We spend an awful lot of time (and $$) in Corporate America on Meyers Briggs and other personality typing tools in an effort to better…

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Connection in an Isolating Age

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on June 20, 2020

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…

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Descending into Madness: Agile Transformation (Part 2)

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on May 9, 2020

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…

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Descending Into Madness: Agile Transformation (Part 1)

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on April 12, 2020

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…

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Deduction and Reduction: Making Lessons Learned Relevant Long After The Retro

  • Crystal Larsh
  • Posted on March 21, 2020

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…

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