How do the best leaders make their team smarter? In surveys, it’s common to hear people say they’re contributing 60% at their jobs. Unlocking people’s potential is a skill that can be worked on, and there are ways to bring out the best in people so that they give beyond what they thought they were capable of.

Ephie Risho and Jason Moore jump in to the topic by covering the first few chapters of Liz Wiseman’s book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. Diminishers are those who tell people what to do, and oftentimes are geniuses themselves. While they may be the smartest person in the room, leading by directing and having others rely on them results in people giving less than they are capable of.

Multipliers see intelligence in everyone, and engage in certain practices that are most effective. Liz highlights five: the talent magnet, the liberator, the challenger, the debate maker, and the investor. In this episode, Ephie & Jason cover the overall idea and the talent magnet, as usual, bringing in their personal experiences to shed light on the topic.

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In this Q&A episode, Ephie Risho and Jason Moore tackle some challenging questions from their fans. Starting out with someone feeling stuck in their career, then getting into some deeper topics with research, how to build a user research arm in a company that doesn’t want to fund it, and how to tackle the challenge of team members who aren’t fully doing their job. As usual, they explore a lot of ideas, offer some sound advice, and have a bit of fun in the process.

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Managing time well requires daily, intentional effort and a strong system to keep organized and on track. While there are many systems and approaches, the kanban has proven time and again to be an incredibly simple, yet useful system to achieve great things in any situation. Life can be full of a wide range of stages which require very different kinds of approaches to managing time. For example, in a crisis, you may need to accomplish dozens of things in a day. Or when managing a long-term project, there are many things to track and oversee.

This simple tool can cover it all! In this follow-up episode, Jason Moore and Ephie Risho dig more deeply into the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. Among other topics, the Urgent/Important Stephen Covey quadrants are picked apart for the good and the bad aspects of what they have to offer. As usual, Ephie & Jason bring their own experiences and insights, and dig down rabbit holes to consider far more than the book’s contents. Join us for this episode, and be inspired to take control of your time far more effectively.

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There’s always far more to do than time to do it, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed or spend time on less important tasks. In this episode, Jason Moore and Ephie Risho tackle this challenge head-on with a system called the personal kanban. At the time of this recording, Ephie had just come through a time when he had far more on his plate than time and was losing steam on everything. Revisiting these ideas and the book revitalized him and brought far more productivity to the rest of his week.

The two key principles of Kanban are visualizing your work and limiting your work-in-progress. Doing these two things alone can make a massive difference in how well you manage your time. This episode covers the first half of the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry.

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The UX Engineer role ensures the software has top quality, consistent experiences. UX and UI diverge in this podcast, where Jason Moore and Ephie Risho dig into the depths with two special guests. UX covers the user flows and experiences, whereas UI is focused more on making everything look and feel seamless.

Special guests Matthew and Cody discuss how they got into the field of UI design, what is most important in larger and smaller organizations, and some of the industry's newest changes. The role of the person looking over the design system may be different from that of a UX designer, but they must work together diligently to create one experience when building top-notch software.

This interview is lighthearted, fun, and chock full of good insights into design systems, UX engineering, UI, and how it all fits together in enterprise software experiences.

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How do user story map tools work for large companies building enterprise software? In this episode, Jason Moore and Ephie Risho finish their five-part series on Jeff Patton’s book User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product.

Topics covered include building deep, shared understanding, working with personas, using minimum viable product cycles to the best effect, prioritization of opportunities, validated learning, Design Thinking best practices, Lean product cycles, and different ideas for collaboration.

Learn about how stories are like Asteroids, and as usual, hear Ephie and Jason’s stories and experiences as they interact with the rich content of this timeless treasure.

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In part three, Ephie and Jason dig deeper into Jeff Patton’s book User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product. As they cover chapters 10-13, they delve deeper into more examples and stories to flesh out the practice of using story maps to guide the entire product development process, from early discovery to breaking down big efforts into smaller chunks.

Breaking down a large epic, or opportunity, into sprint-sized rocks can be challenging but is completely achievable with the right tool set. Selecting the right opportunity from a large backlog can also be extremely difficult, and Jeff gives some handy tools and frameworks to help guide that process using an Opportunity Matrix.

As usual, Ephie and Jason sprinkle in some of their stories and experiences over the years, encouraging the listener to use these powerful tools in practical ways to improve product development.

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Way out West there is this fella by the name of Jeff Patton. At least, that was the handle his lovin’ parents gave him. But we just call him the User Story Mapping Dude. Now, this dude was no stranger to product development. Some might even say, when it comes to story mapping, well, he wrote the book.

And as it was, two big fans of his were doing a podcast series on that said book, and decided to take a roadtrip to interview him in person. Those two fans were fellas from Montana by the names of Jason Moore and Ephie Risho. When they finally did record that podcast, it was magic to behold, full of insights and new stories neither of them had ever heard before. And that’s the story we bring to you in this here podcast.

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