Make Change Easier
More and more organizations are looking to adopt Agile practices in order to transform their organization. In my experience, people in organizations are overly focused on how to motivate people to “be more Agile”. How can we get those pecky testers to “be more Agile?” How can we can those control-freak PM’s to “be more Agile?” If we boil away Agile and all the associated methods and tools, we’re left with wanting people to behave differently...
Read MoreYou’re Doing Better Than You Think
Tha agile community is quick to point out what’s wrong with what your organization is doing. You’re ‘doing scrum wrong’, you’re ‘doing’ agile, not ‘being’ agile and other bullshit like that. What about what you’re doing right? I worked with a project team recently who was the furthest ‘off agile process’ than other projects yet yet they have the happiest stakeholders because they learned that relationships and...
Read MorePeople Are Not Robots
People are doing the best they can with what they have. I have mentioned that in some of my older posts and it’s something I live by. I believe in the good in people and that people in general are not malicious. I have used this argument with many-a-manager that I’ve worked with either as a full time employee or consultant, usually in vain. I remember working with a team in a company that had agreed to do their morning standup at 9.30am. Quickly afterwards a pattern had...
Read More2 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team
During Steve Smith’s ‘Power, Authority and Teams’ session at AYE 2010, one of the attendees mentioned that her team has told her that they don’t know what she does. I’ve been a manager before and now as a coach/consultant, I’ve experienced the same issue and I’m guessing other managers probably have as well based on my experience. A couple of ways for handling this are: Make YOUR work visible: I’ve used personal task boards at previous companies,...
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