Disclaimer: I’m one of the members of the Live-Ask team, this article will reference Live-Ask as a potential solution, but it will also mention other methods and approaches to take. Enabling everyone in your organisation to have a voice enables the collection of different perspectives and helps to create a…

If I was to say to you “Let’s talk about a bottle” your mind will be instantly racing and visualising a bottle in your head, but how do you know that it matches the one I wanted to talk to you about? Throughout my many years of experience dealing with…

One of the topics I often hear from friends and colleagues a like is that they always struggle with 1:1’s with their leader or direct reports. Usually, it ends in some kind of casual conversation which leaves both parties craving for more and feeling like the meeting was not really…

When the first Remarkable Tablet launched, I was watching closely. Being someone who loves the analog feeling of notepad and pen but also someone who loves to be a digital native, it seemed like a great mix of both worlds. …

The 2:1 Method is an easy approach I utilise at home to reduce stress and make sure I never run out of essential items. It’s super simple, every item which is essential and would annoy me if we ran out of, I buy two of them and once the first…

One of the common issues I’ve witnessed during the many years of being a part of software development is the way we handle and classify not only bugs but also all tickets. …

Cycle Times present really interesting insights into how your team is Jira delivering and can highlight any potential bottlenecks in the flowprocess as well as serving as good benchmark for the team. Additional Insights If you want further insights into Lead Time and Cycle Time. you should look into: https://kanbanize.com/kanban-resources/kanban-software/kanban-lead-cycle-time Ingredients …

The Jira Backlog Health Report is a nice and simple tool that can help generate insights into your own backlog. The tooling can be used to also ask questions such as all the tickets that were last touched (updated) more than 12 weeks ago, is it still relevant? Ingredients Jira a…

I really like the Eisenhower Matrix and it’s a tool I use a lot to help declutter my todo list and to be able to really focus on what matters. As I was mainly using Todoist as my personal todo list application of choice, I wanted to create a simple…