This page is intended to provide an alternative way to view my blog posts on Medium, and also to view other content I've written which is not available on my blog:
- Most popular (over the lifetime of the blog, measured in reads)
- Most recent (reverse chronoligical order)
Note: I've uploaded samples of other content I've written that is not published on my blog. You can find that content on my Writing Samples Page and on the Playbook.
These are my top blog posts, in descending order of popularity, over the lifetime of the blog, measured in reads:
- Lean Coffee Facilitator's Guide Tied for first place with 25k reads
- Backlog Refinement and Sprint Planning: Similarities and Differences Tied for first place with 25k reads
- Swarming: A team-based approach to getting work done 23k reads
- Agile Retrospective Technique: Fastest Written Retrospective Technique Ever 10.1k reads
- Team Health Checks 8.5k reads
- Inception: Getting to rapid alignment on team vision and goals 8.5k reads
- Agile Retrospective Technique #2: 30-minute retrospective 8k reads
- Agile Retrospective Technique: Appreciation Game 5.6k reads
- Back to Basics: Writing and splitting user stories 5.5k reads
- Agiel Retrospective Gamification: Choose Five 4.5k reads
- The Team Canvas: Building Trust via Transparency
- Dependency Management Techniques
- Team APIs
- Story Mapping in Under 200 Words
- Better Together: XP and Scrum
- Agile Retrospective Technique #1: Tell a Story
- Impact Mapping in Under 200 Words
- Virtual Exercise to Create or Update a Definition of Done
- Agile Retrospective Technique: Appreciation Post Cards
- Trading Cards Icebreaker Activity
- Team Decision Making Techniques
- Unlocking the Wisdom of the Crowd Through Communities of Practice
- PowerPoint Karaoke in Under 200 Words
- Trello Board: Retrospective Techniques for Coaches, Scrum Masters, and Other Facilitators
- Team Working Agreement for a Team Transitioning to Scrumban
- Looking for a New Retrospective Technique? Try One of These
- The Difference Between a Forecast and a Commitment
- Making Hard Decisions About Priority with a Pyramid Backlog
- Lean Tools for Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Let's Be More Factful: The Gap Instinct
- Agile Retrospective Technique #3: Program Retrospective
- Outcomes as Enablers of Business Impact
- The Trust-Ownership Model
- Agile Retrospective Gamification: Retrospective from a Hat
- Expressing Appreciation: Kudo Cards, Kudo Box, Kudo Wall
- What Feelings Wheels Can Tell Us About Group Dynamics
- Trello Board: Games for Coaches, Scrum Masters, and Other Facilitators
- The Importance of Show and Tell
- Understanding Scrum
- The Agile Fluency Model
- The UnFIX Model: A Pattern-Based Approach to Organizational Design
- An Agile Learning Taxonomy
- Agile Retrospective Technique: C-Level for a Day
- Agile Values
- Is Being a Scrum Master Really All About Mastery of Scrum?
- What the DORA Metrics Can and Cannot Tell us About Organizational Performance
- Likelihood vs. Impact
- A Fresh Perspective on Forecasting in Software Development
- Improving Flow
- Dependency Management Techniques: Part II
- Identifying and Engaging Stakeholders
- Daily Standup Patterns
- Agile Retrospective Technique: Let's Make Socrates Our Retrospective Facilitator
- A Tale of Two Teams in Crisis: Different Leadership Styles, Different Outcomes
- Applying Agile Concepts in a Early Childhood Education Context
- Exploratory Testing Quick Start
- Understanding Team Capabilities
- Prime Directive for Retrospectives
- Hacking the Daily Scrum: The After Party
- The Important of Setting Aside Time for Innovation
- Developer Experience
- Cheat Sheet Finder
- Techniques for Making Security Work Visible in an Agile Context
- Meeting Facilitator's Guide
- The Art and Science of Writing Sprint Goals
- Roberto Clemente and Servant Leadership
This list constitutes a representative sample of the most recent posts, in reverse chronological order:
- Visualizing Possible World Climate Futures with En-ROADS
- Objects in the Future Are Closer Than They Appear: AI and its Implications for Our World
- AI and Cybersecurity: An Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
- AI and Technological Singularity
- Embracing the Near-Totality of Being Human
- Embarking on the Quest to Fine Your Right Fit in the Workplace
- Mathematical Combination, Brook's Law, and the Implications for Team Communication
- The Art and Science of Writing Sprint Goals
- A Practioner's Brief Guide to Scrum
- What the DORA Metrics Can and Cannot Tell Us About Organizational Performance
- Understanding Team Capabilities
- Hacking the Daily Scrum: The After-Party
- Pausing Time and Getting Unstuck - Lessons from a Day of Kayaking
- Profiles in Leadership: George Marshall
- A Fresh Perspective on Forecasting in Software Development
- Digging into Problems with A3
- Observations on DevOps Training and Certification
- The UnFIX Model: A Pattern-Based Approach to Organizational Design
- Facilitation: The Fine Art of Noticing
- Dependency Management Techniques: Part II
- Velocity is a House Built of Straw
- Lean Tools for Problem Solving and Decision Making
- The Scrum 5-3-5-3-3
- What Feelings Wheels Can Tell Us About Group Dynamics
- Team Health Checks
- Making Security Work Visible in an Agile Team Context
- The Team Canvas: Building Trust via Transparency
- PowerPoint Karaoke in Under 200 Words
- Making Hard Decisions about Priority with a Pyramid Backlog
- Dependency Management Techniques
- Better Taste, Fewer Calories: My Initial Take on the 2020 Scrum Guide
- Roberto Clemente and Servant Leadership
- A Tale of Two Teams in Crisis: Different Leadership Styles, Different Outcomes
- Virtual Exercise to Create or Update a Definition of Done
- Cheat Sheet Finder
- Outcomes as Enablers of Business Impact
- A Minimalist Approach for Ephemeral Teaams
- The Importance of Setting Aside Time for Innovation
- Unlocking the Wisdom of the Crowd Through Communities of Practice
- How Happy are We at Work: The Niko Niko Calendar
- Exploring What We've Learned: Celebration Grids
- Management 3.0 Practices Finder
- Liberating Structures Finder