Stephan Huez 🚢 @stephanhuez

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Do I really have to attend this meeting? Great question. I don’t attend all the meetings I’m invited to. And I stand by my words. ➡️ I attend when: - I am expected to contribute - I want to get the information first-hand - I want to observe the dynamics and learn about the c

💡Change is more like crossing the jungle on foot armed with a machete than travelling by car on well-marked roads. You know you want to get to someplace, but in most cases, you can only decide a few steps ahead of where you are now. Because of all the vegetation, you can’t se

Crafting DALL-E 3 prompts reminds me of how bad low-bandwidth-text-only communication is.🤯 Just look at the visuals to see the weird things that happen. Effective communication is hard and we can learn some lessons. Asking a tool to do something for you can be a frustrating bu

"Everything is contextual" is THE ONE thing I learned over the last 25 years. 🤯 That's nice, Steph. But why does it matter? 👉 It matters because we need to be ready to face any circumstance. At some point, almost every client asks me something along the lines of "In your exp

The notion that only significant changes require management is flawed. Every change requires one or more persons to do things differently, independently of its scale. 🤯 If you have children, you know that change is hard. Getting them to keep their rooms tidy can be an exhaust

How frequently and rapidly can we ship our product? This capability is a competitive advantage. What are some factors that will influence that capability? Let's see! Often, we look at how fast the product team can ship. But they are more often than not one link in a chain. By

My team does not seem to improve. What can I do? I’m sharing two problems that you can fix as a leader if improvement is not happening. Even though continuously improving and adapting is a cornerstone of a healthy way of working, it should be more common. Seeking to improve i

As a leader, what should be the focus of your teams? Should it be creating value or producing something, whatever that is? Let's agree that we want the teams to create value. ➡️ Let's see how you can make it happen. ➡️ TLDR; 🔥💯 When a team focuses on features, they focus on o

What if your team works in two-week timeboxes but does not have anything to ship at the end of the timebox? Or they cannot ship it? As a leader, what can you ask yourself and your team? What can you do to support them in their endeavour? 🤔 The team shall aim at delivering valu

When a company hires me to support an existing team, I usually hear that they do Scrum. Fair enough. A few questions later, it is usually clear that they aren't. Let's start with the Sprint Review or lack thereof. 👉 If there is no Sprint Review, there is no Scrum. I usually

@stephanhuez When I get into the deep work zone, I'm always amazed at what I can achieve. The time flies, but the output is high.

A lot is said about psychological safety. As a leader, it is not always easy to know how to develop and increase it. I give you 3️⃣ tips to get any leader started. First, let’s recap what Psychological Safety is: “The belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speak

If nothing worked in an organisation, it would be gone already. That’s why it’s crucial to look at what works before coming with a plan to change everything. ➡️Don't throw the baby with the bathwater. Instead, let’s try something different. I’ve seldom seen a gap analysis that…

Dear leaders, don't try Agile if you don’t want to solve the real problems. I’ve seen this pattern so many times. Teams must start with Scrum. Nothing else changes. Expectations are not met. Scrum is blamed. 💣 But what’s really to blame? 👉 One of the strengths of…

What’s the difference between open-ended and close-ended questions? As a leader or a manager, using one or the other can change the direction of any conversation with your team. Let’s see how. A close-ended question can only be answered by yes or no, while an open-ended one…

Yes, there is such a thing as too much empowerment at once. That’s a lesson I learned the hard way while helping a team learn to self-organise. I started by delegating work by giving them what I thought was the right level of autonomy. It failed miserably. 😱 Then, Geoffrey…

There was a time when it was painful to delegate. As the years passed, it improved a lot. Delegation is powerful. It can also be frustrating if you do it wrongly. Let me share 7 tips to improve how you delegate. Those tips work both for teams and individuals. 1️⃣ Remember that…

"𝐈 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬." This is an excellent quote by Gil Grissom in the TV Series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. As a manager, how would you react if I told you that you should not…

When I was still programming, one thing that frustrated 😤 me was my work computer. Everyone had the same computer aimed for using MS Office. Let me tell you what my manager back then did that changed everything. 𝐇𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡…