Innovation: “Management” vs. “Team” Res [...]
I just read a truly interesting HBR article that focused on the role of management vs. team members themselves in fostering an environment of creativity and innovation. Most of [...]
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Elastic Teams
I was talking with someone at a conference a few weeks ago and he asked the question: What do you think about the concept of “Elastic Teams”? To be honest, I’d never heard [...]
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Avoiding Death by a Thousand Questions
I came upon a wonderful post entitled The Illusion of Managing People at Nucleus Insights. You can find it here: http://nucleusinsights.com/blog/?p=224 The [...]
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Everyone wants to be a Product Owner until [...]
They realize that… They have to sometimes say NO to some stakeholders; They have to make decisions; short term vs. long term; tactical vs. strategic; now vs. later; They [...]
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What is a Scrum of Scrums?
It all started with this picture that Mike Cohn published over 10 years ago. In the explanation he briefly mentioned a hierarchal structure where multiple [...]
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Product Owners - Stop Bullying Your Teams
I was in a Backlog Refinement meeting the other day and you would have thought I was in divorce court where the parties were negotiating (fighting for) everything. Each time the [...]
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Agile Teams – Be more like Scotty!
Nearly every week I hear from an agile team member about them biting off more than they can chew. There are usually [...]
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3 Key Agile-centric Metrics
My friend and colleague Shaun Bradshaw and I were coaching at a client recently. We started to have a conversation around velocity, not directly driven by the clients’ context [...]
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Definition of Done – Apparently it’s [...]
I recently came across a LinkedIn group discussion related to Definition of Done. It was quite spirited, and as of Fall of 2016, it is still ongoing. As in anything, I had mixed [...]
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Bugs, Bugs, and more Bugs!
In my agile coaching and training journey, I spend a lot of time discussing a wide variety of topics. But there are themes that form a “Top 10” of topics that everyone seems [...]
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