“I have an idea.” The 4 words that strike fear into my wife How do you know if your killer new idea is really any good? Although my recent book, The Innovation Revelation, looked at finding solutions to customers’ problems at a macro level (i.e. from understanding the intersection between… Read More »What customers want
Charlie is at his wits end. He and his team suffer from their organisation’s bad practices on a daily basis and he has had enough. He writes his resignation letter, listing a dozen problems. Some of you will recognise this as the start to my new book, a story about… Read More »I spy a dysfunction in the house
With our addictive apps, sticky widgets, and blindly engaging interactions, we’ve created an era of distraction and fear. How familiar is the following scenario? You’re focusing on writing an email when your watch vibrates to alert you to a new email. Buzz. You give it a quick glance, decide to… Read More »Calming the noise
Nudge is a book that investigates the philosophical questions around influencing people. Although it was first published in 2008, it is still as relevant today. And it’s made an impact on how organisations think. Organisations such as governments. I’ll paraphrase their example to explain. Let’s pretend that you run your… Read More »Nudge
In November 2013, I had the idea of writing a book. The book would be in a Q&A format, based on the questions that attendees had asked us during our Scrum training sessions. We’d been training colleagues within our company, and running public courses at General Assembly, for a number… Read More »Our book … now on Amazon
What’s your favourite business-focused book? Someone asked me this the other day. Although I considered Dan Pink’s Drive, Cialdini’s Influence, Duckworth’s Grit, Hubbard’s How to Measure Anything and a raft of others, it had to be Goldratt’s The Goal. Now it’s in graphic form! The book, first published in 1984, was not just… Read More »The Goal becomes graphic
This week’s blog post is based on a chapter from our book, Scrum 101: the most frequently asked questions about Agile with Scrum, which is available to buy for £9.90. There are twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto (Beck et al., 2001). Here they are with an example of why they might be beneficial.… Read More »What are the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto?
“My brother got all the brains. I had to work really hard to get where I am.” ~ David Lowe, 1995 onwards That’s how I used to explain my successes. I thought I’d got the short straw at having to work much harder to get results. But it turns out that… Read More »Grit is what you need
My previous post about working like a startup mentioned the scientific method around which my favoured way of working revolves. In fact, with our small feedback loops and Bayesian planning (that is, taking new information and adjusting our plans), many agile teams are using this method without knowing it. So… Read More »What is the scientific method?
What’s the best way to go about building a new product, service or solution? Many will say that it is Lean Startup’s build-measure-learn cycle. I don’t disagree that it makes sense testing assumptions and getting early feedback, but I believe that there’s a process that precedes it. I’d argue that… Read More »Ask-learn-evaluate cycle
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