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Month: August 2024

A Scrum Master Trying to Wrangle Product Dependencies with Her Team. Team sits around a wooden table. Stickies organized on a wall in back of the team. Scrum Master is standing up drawing a web of dependencies on a glass wall. | Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels

How Scrum Masters Can Unleash Lean Flow by Being Control Freaks

August 26, 2024 Coach Lankford Leave a comment

Learn how Scrum Masters can enhance lean flow by breaking dependencies and eliminating waste, ensuring smoother value delivery and effective teamwork.

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Planning Vs. Action: Why a Product Team’s Best Bet Is Real-world Evidence

August 20, 2024 Coach Lankford Leave a comment

Prioritization fails product teams. Learn why real-world action and iterative evidence lead to better outcomes than elaborate planning and prioritization.

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Posted in: Agile Mindset, Leadership, Lean Leverage, Transformation Filed under: Empirical, Evidence, Leadership, Management, Planning, Product Management, Software Development
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How I Learned Outcomes Don’t Come From a Breakthrough First Effort

August 13, 2024 Coach Lankford Leave a comment

Here’s how I fell in love with the chase. It was almost midnight. The night was young. My team and…

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Perfect Vs. Good: How I Drive Product Outcomes Sooner Through Imperfection

August 5, 2024 Coach Lankford 2 Comments

Why striving for flawlessness might be holding you and your product back. “You just gotta ship it.” As a recovering…

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Lean Leverage: It’s what happens when you remove the inessential to deliver maximum outcomes while respecting people. When the superfluous is out of the way, you get two benefits. First, you don’t waste energy on what is not needed, and second, you focus more quality time on what needs to be done. This blog attempts to live up to these goals.

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