The Improvement Newsletter

Every Tuesday: practical ideas on how teams work, why people behave the way they do, and what you can actually do about it.

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Who writes this?
Mike Bowler has spent 25+ years helping teams and their leaders work better — drawing on agile methods, workflow design, and applied neuroscience. He's a Certified Consulting Hypnotist, a Kanban Management Professional, and the creator of JiraMetrics. He writes about what actually works, not what sounds good in a conference talk.
www.MikeBowler.ca

What Makes This Different?

Most newsletters pick a lane: process, or technical practices, or people skills. This one connects all three, because that's where the real improvements happen.

People

Human behaviour, psychology, and applied neuroscience, to improve how people work, both individually and in groups. This includes a focus on growing psychological safety.

Process

Workflow design and implementation, to improve how the work flows through the system and how value is created. A focus on metrics, more data-informed decision making, and probabilistic forecasting.

Skills

Technical skills to improve how the value is actually implemented and maintained. Development, architecture, DevOps.

Product skills to ensure we're building the right thing at the right time.

Coaching skills to help us help others.