Tammy Pearson on Atomic Spin

Keeping Distributed Teams Unblocked with Azure Boards’s “Remaining Work” Field

The Remaining Work field in Azure Boards helped our scrum master keep our distributed development team from becoming blocked.

Personal Optimization

4 Steps to Starting a Daily Standup with Your Family During Remote Work/School

Family standup meetings have helped us maintain harmony in our household while keeping our work-from-home and school productivity levels high.

Growing as Makers

Abstraction Laddering – An Easy, Effective Problem Framing Exercise

You can't solve a problem you don't understand. Before you jump into action, bring your issues into the right level of focus with the Ladder of Abstraction.

Planning Your Project

Sunsetting a Product? First Use HCD to Understand Who Uses It

Stakeholder mapping helps you identify and analyze all the people who interact with a product. It will lead to better decision making and communication.

Project & Team Management

Bringing the Customer Along Is Worth It

Don't pass up the little opportunities to build trust and credibility with your customers. It's never wasted time to engage them throughout a project.

Project & Team Management

How I’m Improving Predictability with Pivotal Tracker’s ‘Team Strength’

Planing around vacations, sick days, maternity leave, conferences, etc.? Pivotal Tracker's "Team Strength" feature may be exactly what you're looking for.

Planning Your Project

Product Owners Shouldn’t Shy Away from Customer Surveys

Customer feedback must inform active product development. This feedback can be used to validate assumptions, provide direction on which features to build, and help understand marke

Project & Team Management

Need to Assess Project Value without Hard Metrics? Measure Customer Behaviors

Most companies launch a software project without clearly defined customer satisfaction or revenue goals. So how do you know if your project provided value?

Project & Team Management

Intro to Incident Communication for Product Managers

Product managers must be prepared to communicate about software outages and other incidents! Here's an overview and guidelines on how you can be ready.

Project & Team Management

A Structure for Collecting Useful Customer Feedback

A set of questions that standardize user feedback and deliver it to the Product Owner in a way they can easyily synthesize and use to make smart decisions.

Project & Team Management

Starting a New Story? Run a Story Workshop to Bring your Team Together

Story workshops are a great addition to the Agile process. Take time to meet and answer the question, "What are we going to build?"

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