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Design ThinkingThis is a short course on the Design Thinking process. The Design Thinking process is...

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As people within Engineering take on new responsibilities, and new people join our teams, they are e...

Giving and receiving effective feedback are skills that are central in healthcare settings

The Team Canvas is Business Model Canvas for teamwork. It is a free tool for leaders, facilitators a...

The science and psychology of why taking compliments is so hard.

When running Maturity Mapping sessions with teams and in workshops I ask teams to map the practices ...

When organisations and teams are looking to understand how good they are and where they should look ...

Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, tracked exactly how he spent the two years since founding th...

Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, tracked exactly how he spent the two years since founding th...

Duration:90-120 minutes Participants:2 - 8 Facilitation:team lead or external facilitator Materials:...

Pod. Work group. Committee. Autonomous collective. Whatever you call it, you’re part of one at Googl...

In business, as in life, we often feel trapped in the tension between the “urgent” and the “importan...

This post is part of a series on Creating Effective Teams.

A BigCo Story Welcome to BigCo Inc! It’s your first day as a software engineer and you’re excited to...

Recently I’ve been thinking a bunch about planning, and have been casting around for resources to work through while refining my approach. To my good fortune, my previous colleague, Brie Wolfson, has been working on a project delving into company process, The Kool-Aid Factory, and she has an excellent issue on planning.

Deciding what to work on and how you'll get there. Brought to you by The Kool-Aid Factory.

Why other people’s emotions might not be about you — and your emotions might not be about them

Core Needs: BICEPSThere are six core needs researchers find are important for humans (both at work a...

An explorative reflection what makes a team successful.

When you think about “scaling” in the context of engineering, does your mind jump to thinking about ...

Mental models are simple expressions of complex processes or relationships. These models are accumul...

How big of a team can someone lead well? What are the factors that might decrease or increase this s...

Learn how Atlassian product managers influence without authority

Technical Evangelist James Whittaker opens up on why he left Google and his vision for the future of...

Designers and Developers, when joined together we are able to create high quality products. We aught to work together as a team, but most of the time we don’t.

Two years ago, a few of us on the research team at Dropbox set out to better understand the qualitie...

Five ways to build trust.