Navigation - Part 1: Responding to the Great Resignation
The Great Resignation will have some lasting effects that will shape the way we recruit and retain great employees going forward.
Mentorship - Part 4: Build Confidence
Leaders build confidence by celebrating wins, supporting growth, and being both a coach and a team's biggest fan.
Mentorship - Part 3: Progress Is Made on the Back of Failure
Great leaders let others fail, learn, and grow—mentoring with guidance, support, and the resilience to try again.
Group Dynamics - Part 3: Norming & Performing
Ultimately, the goal for any team is to reach the norming and performing stages as quickly as possible.
Group Dynamics - Part 2: Storming
The storming stage is the most important and most valuable because it is in this stage where the team learns and grows the most.
Group Dynamics - Part 1: Forming
At the forming stage, new teams define roles, processes, and expectations — setting the tone for how they’ll tackle challenges and grow together.
Mentorship - Part 2: Delegation Is Key
Delegating tasks empowers your team, fosters growth, and frees you to focus on priorities — key to mentorship and long-term success.
Mentorship - Part 1: Let It Go
Leaders must learn to let go — trusting new team members to take over, make mistakes, and grow while focusing on their own responsibilities.
Teamwork - Part 3: Connect & Bond
From tournaments to charity events and weekly lunches, Clientek fosters teamwork by creating fun, meaningful ways for teammates to connect and bond.
Teamwork - Part 2: Asking for Help
At Clientek, asking for help is encouraged. Weekly check-ins and open collaboration foster trust, problem-solving, and stronger project outcomes.
Teamwork - Part 1: Ownership
Each team member brings value to our projects. Our collective experience is greater than the sum of its parts.
Reflection - Part 3: Know Your Colleagues
Building trust starts with knowing your colleagues beyond work. Connect on a personal level to strengthen teams and foster lasting success.
Reflection - Part 2: Celebrate Your Wins
Don’t rush past success — pause to reflect and celebrate your team’s wins. Recognize achievements to build momentum for future goals.
Reflection - Part 1: The Importance of Retrospection
As with most things in life, if an individual or team feels they cannot spend the time to reflect on how to get better, they never will.
A Good User Story - Part 3: Eliminate Misinterpretation
Clear, specific acceptance criteria in user stories reduce misinterpretation — ensuring teams share the same understanding of what will be delivered.
A Good User Story - Part 2: Vertical Slices
What’s the smallest piece of functionality that can be provided to the business user as soon as possible?
A Good User Story - Part 1: Business Value Vs. Solutions
When writing user stories, focus on business value — not predefined solutions — so teams can explore multiple approaches to meet the need.
Finding Balance - Part 5: Retrospective Balance
Retrospectives help teams step out of the weeds, regain perspective on project goals, and balance sprint delivery with overall release objectives.
Finding Balance - Part 4: Get a Hobby
Passionate hobbies outside of work boost focus, productivity, and job satisfaction — giving your mind the reset it needs to thrive.
Finding Balance - Part 3: Retaining Culture
During remote work, we found creative ways to keep Clientek’s culture alive — proving connection and fun can thrive even without the office.
Finding Balance - Part 2: Personal Connections
Strong partnerships require personal connections — beyond business. Finding creative ways to connect kept relationships thriving during isolation.
Finding Balance - Part 1: Take a Walk
Breaking the nonstop work-from-home cycle with a daily walk brought fresh air, connection, and clarity — boosting focus and productivity.
Changing Perception - Part 7: Slow Down to Go Fast
Slow down to go fast — focus, prioritize, and work the plan to deliver faster and with higher quality, even in high-demand situations.
Changing Perception - Part 6: Release Fear
We need to stop being afraid to release our work into the wild. Instead, embrace it and learn from the valuable feedback that you get.
Changing Perception - Part 5: Delivery
Managing communication, transparency, and perception are all important but delivery is still the key.
Changing Perception - Part 4: Transparency
One of the biggest mistakes we have made as an industry is to treat our craft like some sort of behind-the-scenes magic.
Changing Perception - Part 3: Predictability
Track velocity, stay transparent, and adjust deliberately — predictable delivery builds trust, improves planning, and shifts perception positively.
Changing Perception - Part 2: The Estimate Myth
Estimates are a best guess at a point in time — stay transparent, assess change impacts, and adapt with your partners to deliver real value.
Changing Perception - Part 1: Confidence
Rebuild confidence in IT by partnering with the business, staying transparent, adapting to change, and showing the true project state often.
Defining Success - Part 7: Perseverance
Great teams persevere. At Clientek, trust, positivity, and diligence help us tackle tough challenges and deliver complex projects with pride.
Defining Success - Part 6: Quality
Quick fixes fail. At Clientek, we embed quality into every sprint so our solutions last — because band-aids fall off, but quality endures.
Defining Success - Part 5: Time to Market
On time isn’t in time if your business can’t take advantage of the new functionality quick enough, or if the product is beaten to market by a competitor.
Defining Success - Part 4: Predictability
Hitting the “on time” goal for a project requires a deeper look into how predictable your team can be at delivering on their commitments.
Defining Success - Part 3: Incremental Wins Are Success
Big projects don’t need to wait for the big launch — at Clientek, we find and deliver small, incremental wins that create immediate impact and lasting success.
Defining Success - Part 2: What makes a software team successful?
Successful software teams start with the right people, clear goals, transparency, and trust — then celebrate victories along the way.
Defining Success - Part 1: When Done Is Done
Ensure 'done' truly means done — align teams, verify all work, and keep overall release goals in focus to deliver successful projects.
Focus - Part 5: Finish Strong
A project’s end is a chance to learn and improve. Hold a final retrospective, carry lessons forward, and celebrate your team’s hard work.
Focus - Part 4: Change Is Inevitable
Never in the history of project-based work has an initial plan been executed with zero adjustments. Changes aren’t bad, but they all have impact.
Focus - Part 3: The Definition of Success
Define success by clearly stating the problem, exploring solutions, and setting measurable goals to track progress and validate results.
Focus - Part 2: Planning
Planning turns priorities into action by defining tasks, dependencies, and milestones, helping teams adapt quickly and deliver successfully.
Focus - Part 1: Prioritization
Prioritization helps cut through distractions, keeping focus on the most important tasks and ensuring productivity at work and at home.
Common Ground
Take away new ideas outside of your current thinking. Find common ground, compromise, and be more successful.
Empowerment - Part 5: Yourself
Discover five practical ways to empower yourself — from prioritizing personal time to networking — to boost confidence and effectiveness.
Empowerment - Part 4: Leadership
Leaders that empower, widely demonstrate some fundamental characteristics of emotional intelligence...
Empowerment - Part 3: Employees
Empower employees through autonomy, mastery, and purpose — building trust and culture that drive performance and long-term success.
Empowerment - Part 2: Building Trust in Teams
Empower teams through trust, transparency, and mentorship — fostering autonomy, collaboration, and high-quality results for lasting success.
Empowerment - Part 1: Next-Level Teams
Discover how empowerment — through autonomy, trust, and mentorship — drives high-performing agile teams from inception to delivery.
Inspect & Adapt
Continual inspection and small, honest adaptations build accountability, prevent stagnation, and drive lasting team performance and innovation.
Failing Fast
Not all ideas work. Not all projects will be successful. If we become comfortable with that and learn to fail fast, we are actually not failing at all.
Employee Engagement
Clientek keeps employees engaged remotely by adapting its 'Management by Walking Around' approach with impromptu Microsoft Teams video drop-ins.
Optimize Your Innovation
Clientek helps companies optimize innovation by defining objectives, prioritizing value, and delivering in smaller, faster, high-impact releases.
Effective Remote Collaboration
Strategies for effective remote collaboration, blending technology with informal connections to keep teams engaged and productive.
Is Now the Time to Invest?
Clientek helps businesses turn uncertainty into opportunity, investing in innovation now to outpace competitors when the market rebounds.