Because hey, they aren’t the same thing.

Don’t tell smart people what to do. Give them autonomy and allow them to take risks.

When you measure performance, ignore presence and focus on what people are actually achieving.

Use Kim Scott’s model of “Radical Candour” to share effective feedback.

Without the space to pause and reflect, you’ll rarely improve your systems. To get better, you need slack.

Sprint planning is amongst the most time consuming activities for development teams. One could argue that the value you get is not proportional to the effort you put into these meetings. With some effort you can drop sprint planning meetings completely.

You won’t know if your changes make a difference, until you have indicators and metrics in place. Use the leading and lagging indicators in this method, as your sensible default.

Identify your team values using a short, one hour workshop. By the end of this exercise, you’ll have a list of values and rough notes about what they mean to you.