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2022 a year in review

When cross-functional teams meet design

When leadership meets culture

The unintended consequences of gamification

The perils of spoon feeding

Learning to learn or learning for a purpose?

Add skills not people to your cross-functional teams

Team building with real options

Busy being busy

The efficiency paradox

Do you need a Chief Unblocking Officer?

Individuals & interactions over processes & tools

Should every team be cross-functional?

Strategy, options, and decisions continued

Strategy, options, decisions oh my!

Product roadmaps as strategy

Be a samurai, not a lumberjack

Getting better at getting better

Product thinking and validated learning

Paying for agile, doesn’t make you agile

Taking everyone on the journey

Don’t throw your portfolio baby out with the bathwater

Searching through resumes and finding great people

The world is not binary, it is context-sensitive

Product centric, rather than Product all the things

Stable Teams and Dynamic Structures

Untangling Organizational Dependencies

Agile in Large Complex Organizations

On hiring agile coaches

Poacher Turned Gamekeeper

From dragon slayer to team player

Reporting lines vs. delivery structures — fight!

Internal products don’t require internal customers

The Where (of Working)

Ego driven architecture, confusing needs with solutions

Why do we need permission to be empowered?

Best practice recipes and other fallacies

Don’t let your operating model lead you off a cliff

We must buy this product, our competition uses it…

Musings from a slow learner with a touch of imposter syndrome