Meetings

How to facilitate useful meetings

Liberating Structures

Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and trust. They quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size, making it possible to truly include and unleash everyone. Liberating Structures are a disruptive innovation that can replace more controlling or constraining approaches.

How to kick off a piece of work

Kick-offs set the tone and create the foundations for the work ahead. They can quickly build momentum, pump prime a great team and fill the sponsors with confidence. It’s worth putting the time and effort into getting them right.

Why “Standups” are Useless and How to Run Great Product Team Meetings

The format for standups popularized in Agile methodology, unfortunately, isn’t well calibrated for driving efficient product development within a team. The root cause for long development cycles is that decisions weren’t made quickly and frequently. By replacing daily standups with less frequent decision-making meetings, product teams can save themselves lots of wasted time and build products much more quickly.

You don’t need standup

I wanted the team to know I trusted them. To know that it’s ok to tackle tech debt, explore, and work at their own pace. I laid out the goals for the quarter and trusted that the work would get done. Then I got the fuck out of the way.

Would you believe it: work got done. A lot of it.