Impact Mapping is a technique for strategic planning. It aligns team activities with business objectives by communicating assumptions. Impact mapping is a technique for better understanding how you can influence business outcomes. With impact mapping, you go beyond a formal requirements document; instead, you try to work out what impacts…

When you start modeling events, it forces you to think about the system's behavior. As opposed to thinking about the structure of the system. — Greg Young Organizations should adopt event-driven architectures to go beyond their original goals. This enables new opportunities for analysis and functionality. Event-first thinking is crucial…

When implementing a process for value and visibility, it’s essential to plan in detail for the next increment of value and estimate the remaining project in larger chunks. Each story pursued should meet the INVEST criteria, which includes a “definition of Ready” and “a definition of Done.” This ensures that…

Mindful Communication creates understanding through awareness. Mindful Communication implies being present. Effective Communication depends on presence. To say what we mean, we must first know what we mean. We must listen and discern what’s true to understand what we mean. Communication crosses all the boundaries of our lives. It includes…

Organizational culture isn’t a problem to be solved; it’s an emergent phenomenon we must cultivate. To the legacy leader, everything still looks like a factory. And all our problems can be fixed if we work long enough hard. But our bureaucracies are different from complexity. They can’t handle the surprises…

One way to speed up personal growth is to seek feedback from others who present challenges. Ask them what actions or behaviors are hindering progress. We must recognize that we often check ourselves based on our intentions while others judge us by our impact on them. Feedback can be expressed…

When designing software, it’s essential to listen to feedback. Friction is an excellent indicator that improvements need to be made. If a design is causing difficulties for the development team, it’s trying to tell you something important is missing. There are many signs that a design may need to be…

Valuable initiatives produce an observable change in someone’s way of working. Capturing a behavior change makes a story measurable from a business perspective, always opening up a good discussion. Often, the short description of a story leaves a lot of ambiguity about the scope of the change. Even when it…

Let’s kick off our meetings with a check-in process. It’s vital to connect on a personal level. We value everyone’s input and encourage open communication. Ask a simple question such as “What’s on your mind?”Also, have rounds where everyone can speak and take part. Instead of pre-planning an agenda, we’ll…