Many of us feel like we spend a lot of time talking about work but not actually making progress toward our goals. Kim Ehrman shares how to shake up your typical ways of working and set up an almost-no-meetings week, focused on making progress.

If everything is a priority, how do you choose what to do first? Product management expert Pedro Cortez shares four ways to pick the next focus area, when finite resources leave more priorities than can be addressed right now.

Kim Ehrman shares five targeted investments for CIOs to include in the 2024 budget, focused on helping teams deliver better and setting IT up for long-term success. These include an IT Strategy Workshop, a Demand Management Optimization effort, and more.

Pedro Cortez shares an edge-of-your-seat story from his son's Ninja Warrior world championship competition, along with the business transformation lessons it reminded him of.

Kim Ehrman shares four recommendations to realize lasting benefits without scope creep: specify a clear and compelling why, create an intuitive and accessible backlog, build in scalability, and embrace structured continuous improvement.

Kim Ehrman shares how guidance given on writing an important email relates to several powerful business concepts that come in unlikely pairs, including paradoxical leadership skills and featured pairings in the Agile manifesto.

Rachel Rubin reflects on how to avoid workarounds in architecture and code based on her experience in consulting and technology firms. She recommends fostering a culture that prioritizes clean coding and building in safeguards like tech debt clean-up sprints.