Everyday Design Guides

Everyday Guides

The guides are focused on themes related to design thinking, agile solutions, intentional marketing / communication, leadership and everyday life.

Featured Guides

Female Product Owner typing on a computer
July 31, 2023

Can the Scrum Master and Product Owner be the same person?

Two people meeting for a 1on1
December 30, 2023
November 16, 2022

How 1 on 1 Coaching Will Make You a Better Leader

Two members of a Scrum team working on acceptance criteria examples at a whiteboard
July 31, 2023
November 19, 2022

A How to Guide for Writing Acceptance Criteria with Examples

A group of people following a leader
December 30, 2023
November 7, 2022

Find a Mentor

Digital Whiteboard Review: Miro, Mural, FigJam, Lucidspark, Jamboard, Creately
January 5, 2024
March 21, 2023

How to choose the best online digital whiteboard in 2022?

Decluttered Minimal Workspace
January 5, 2024
November 8, 2022

MinimalList. Declutter Your Mental Workspace

Latest Guides

Turn Ideas into Reality
January 6, 2024
February 3, 2023

An Introduction to OKRs: Objectives and Key Results

Leadership
Two people walking empathetically
January 5, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Empathy StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Belief inspiring sunrise
January 3, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Belief StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Strengthsfinder Significance looking for meaning in the sky
January 3, 2024
February 12, 2023

Leading with the Significance StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Designing a leader
November 6, 2023
October 22, 2022

Leadership Design

Leadership
Design Thinking
Life
Design Sprint Book
October 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

What is a Design Sprint?

Design Thinking
Scrum Meeting
September 3, 2023
March 18, 2023

Why does Scrum have so many meetings?

Agile
two people learning Scrum together
September 3, 2023
February 18, 2023

Scrum glossary and terminology cheat sheet

Agile
people using computers at the same table
September 3, 2023
February 18, 2023

What are the roles in Scrum?

Agile
As a... I want to... So the I can...
September 3, 2023
February 17, 2023

Learn to write user stories in Scrum

Agile
3 people in discussion
September 3, 2023
December 28, 2022

How to use story points in Scrum?

Agile
Sticky notes on a window
September 3, 2023
November 22, 2022

How a Scrum backlog increases team effectiveness

Agile
Woman laughing
September 3, 2023
November 20, 2022

What is a Scrum Master?

Agile
Agile marketing at their desk
September 3, 2023
November 16, 2022

Scrum Marketing

Agile
Two people leaping for joy
September 3, 2023
November 16, 2022

What is the definition of done in Scrum?

Agile
Woman with sticky notes
September 3, 2023
November 9, 2022

What is the definition of Scrum?

Agile
Woman writing on whiteboard
September 3, 2023
November 9, 2022

Why use Scrum?

Agile
a desk for working on Scrum professional development
September 3, 2023
November 8, 2022

How can I use Scrum to manage my personal or professional development?

Agile
Two people in the middle of a home remodel project
September 3, 2023
November 8, 2022

How to use Scrum to get your home projects DONE.

Agile
Sticky-notes arranged
September 3, 2023
November 8, 2022

Is Scrum a methodology or a framework?

Agile
sprinters in a race
September 3, 2023
November 8, 2022

What is a sprint in Scrum?

Agile
Sticky notes
September 3, 2023
November 7, 2022

How to do sprint planning in Scrum?

Agile
Team standing for a meeting
September 3, 2023
November 7, 2022

Keep your team in sync with a daily standup in Scrum.

Agile
3 people in a Scrum meeting
September 3, 2023
November 7, 2022

Who attends each Scrum meeting?

Agile
Scrum FAQ Sign
September 3, 2023
September 19, 2022

3 Takeaways After Writing a 6,000 Word Scrum FAQs

Agile
Female Product Owner typing on a computer
September 3, 2023

Can the Scrum Master and Product Owner be the same person?

Agile
Everyday Scrum
September 3, 2023

Everyday Scrum

Agile
Digital Whiteboard Review: Miro, Mural, FigJam, Lucidspark, Jamboard, Creately
August 23, 2023
March 21, 2023

How to choose the best online digital whiteboard in 2022?

Design Thinking
Agile
Leadership
Business woman looking out the window
August 23, 2023
November 20, 2022

What is a product owner?

Agile
Two members of a Scrum team working on acceptance criteria examples at a whiteboard
August 23, 2023
November 19, 2022

A How to Guide for Writing Acceptance Criteria with Examples

Agile
communication bubble
August 5, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Communication StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Scrum Education - pencils
August 5, 2023
November 8, 2022

Agile Homeschooling

Agile
Inspection magnifying glass
August 2, 2023
July 7, 2023

Agile Inspection

Agile
Agile Pillar Adapt
July 31, 2023
July 9, 2023

Agile Adaptation

Agile
Transparent building
July 31, 2023
July 7, 2023

Agile Transparency

Agile
Leadership
Aligned markers
July 31, 2023
March 24, 2023

Why Alignment is so Important to Leader Design

Leadership
The number 4
July 31, 2023
March 24, 2023

Learn How To Achieve Your Goals Using The 4 Disciplines Of Execution (4dx)

Leadership
Tunnel of chaos
July 31, 2023
March 21, 2023

Creative Scrum: Tunnel of Chaos

Agile
Leadership
An effective work meeting
July 31, 2023
March 18, 2023

A Recipe for Hosting Effective Meetings

Leadership
A lightbulb representing ideas
July 31, 2023
March 18, 2023

Creative Scrum: Selling the Idea

Agile
Leadership
Chart for outcomes
July 31, 2023
March 3, 2023

Creative Scrum: Defining the Outcomes

Agile
Creative Scrum road
July 31, 2023
March 1, 2023

Creative Scrum: Backstory

Agile
Leadership
Creative Scrum research paper
July 31, 2023
March 1, 2023

Creative Scrum: Doing Research

Agile
a self-organizing team working together
July 31, 2023
February 22, 2023

The Power of Self-Organizing Teams to Unlock Your Team’s True Potential

Agile
Leadership
A product owner and scrum master in a meeting
July 31, 2023
February 18, 2023

A Tale of Two Roles: Product Owner vs. Scrum Master

Agile
Enneagram 6 leader
July 31, 2023
February 18, 2023

Harnessing Your Inner Enneagram 6 Leader

Leadership
a project manager at a desk next to a Scrum Master at a desk
July 31, 2023
February 18, 2023

How is a scrum master different than a project manager?

Agile
Affinity Diagramming with Sticky Notes
July 31, 2023
February 18, 2023

How to use Affinity Diagrams to discover insights

Design Thinking
picture with contrast
July 31, 2023
February 18, 2023

Scrum vs. Agile.

Agile
An enneagram 1 leader
July 31, 2023
February 18, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Enneagram 1 Leadership

Leadership
Scrum development team at a table during a meeting
July 31, 2023
February 18, 2023

What is a Scrum Development Team?

Agile
Card Sorting for a Team
July 31, 2023
February 17, 2023

How Card Sorting Can Help You Take Your Leadership Skills to the Next Level

Design Thinking
Birds in proximity
July 31, 2023
February 11, 2023

You Should Consider Proximity Essential to Your Leader Design

Leadership
Contrast between two images
July 31, 2023
February 11, 2023

You Need Contrast to Grow as a Leader

Leadership
photo of bird with lots of negative space
July 31, 2023
February 11, 2023

How to Use Negative Space in Your Design as a Leader

Leadership
Rhythm of windows on a building
July 31, 2023
February 11, 2023

Rhythm is Critical for the Longterm Health of a Leader

Leadership
Leader on a mountain
July 31, 2023
February 7, 2023

Unlocking Your Leadership Potential With the Enneagram

Leadership
A Servant Leader
July 31, 2023
February 6, 2023

Applying StrengthsFinder in Servant Leadership

Leadership
Window framing a mountain view
July 31, 2023
February 3, 2023

Discover How the Vision Frame Helps You Set Goals

Leadership
Notepad for goal setting to-do list
July 31, 2023
February 3, 2023

How To-Do Lists Can Help You Set Goals

Leadership
Your Ideas Matter
July 31, 2023
February 3, 2023

How You Can Use the Strategic Planning Process

Leadership
Clarity coming from a pair of glasses.
July 31, 2023
February 3, 2023

Learn How to Create Clarity Around Your Goals

Leadership
Girl writing down her SMART goals
July 31, 2023
February 3, 2023

Setting Goals the Right Way

Leadership
An Individual in a crowd
July 31, 2023
January 31, 2023

Leading with the Individualization StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
runner going up stairs
July 31, 2023
January 31, 2023

Leading with the Maximizer StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Coaching arrow pointing forward
July 31, 2023
January 31, 2023

Why I started coaching

Leadership
Arranger Strengthsfinder pencils
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Arranger StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
connected light swirls
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Connectedness StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Adaptability Chameleon
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Adaptability StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
woman with commanding presence
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Command StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Activator StrengthsFinder motorcycle jumping
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Activator StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Achiever Strengthsfinder Leadership - Leading with the Achiever StrengthsFinder Talent
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Achiever StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Analytical StrengthsFinder numbers
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Analytical StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
competition winners stand
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Competition StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
old books
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Context StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Strengthsfinder developer witting with someone they're coaching
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Developer StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Discipled leader looking at laptop
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Discipline StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Warning sign
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Deliberative StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
lightbulb
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Ideation StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Design Thinking
consistent shapes
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Consistency StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Futuristic StrengthsFinder leader staring into the future.
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Futuristic StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
inclusive team
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Includer StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
harmony rocks
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Harmony StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
July 31, 2023
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Focus StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
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