How to Run Calibrations
Calibrations are a group-based process for an organization to increase the equity of individual performance reviews across a large set of teams
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Dependency Management Playbook
How to manage risk for your project dependencies, i.e. when you need another team to put something on their roadmap.
Organizational Design
You don’t have to choose just one organizational strategy for your entire company. A mature product org may be organized by goal, while a new product org has...
My Expectations for Managers
These are my basic expectations for managers that report to me
What are Healthy Relationships?
Strong relationships built in the small moments will be what you lean on to get through tough times
80 Percent is Done
80% of impact for anything comes from the first 20% of the work
Setting Direction: Create a Strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy using Apple circa 1997 as an example
Thanksgiving Epic Estimation Workshop
Epic estimation is as much about best-effort definition of scope and milestones as a cross-functional team, as it is about putting estimate values on roadmap...
Let’s Work Together
The first step is getting to know each other
How to Run a Zoom All Hands
If you’re working in corporate America, you’ve probably been to a lot of All Hands presentations.