As seen here on Amazon I printed these cards ten years ago to support a client who trained 15,000+ people a year.
They wanted folk to collaborate and share their understanding using "planning poker" and I designed these to support those conversations. Sometimes that works and an estimating game helps people surface the assumptions and clarify the most valuable outcome for upcoming work.
I have a few hundred decks remaining and am happy to share them for the price of postage - up to 4 decks per order (as that's the size of a padded A4 envelope).
Just send me a message via the contact page.
We have some mid-tier consultants in at the moment who are "focussing on culture." Since we don't separate culture from delivering value to customers, I asked what that meant in practice. Apparently: "A generic scheme of manoeuvre could involve a diagnostic that looks at things like empowerment, psychological safety, collaboration, purpose, customer centricity… then based […]
I joined FGS CEO, Peter Stroud and his guests discussing “the new normal”; James Hall, Global Storage Chief Technologist at HPE Frank Purcell, Operational Services Manager at Islington Council What you cant see is the wine-tasting that followed. Pete sent each of us a case of half-bottles of wine from Berry Bros. It was great.
Today’s challenge is that traditional management approaches, where managers tell people what to do and how to do it, are not as effective as they once were. Agile transformation takes years, but changing management’s focus from people to tensions could be a better solution. It is simpler, faster, and considerably more cost-effective. Management is the […]
