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Out of sight, out of mind? 5 Virtual Team Building Activities
65% of remote employees report that they never had a team building session. Having co-workers spread across two or more locations is becoming a model more and more organization will have to adapt to. Stop hesitating, but look for ways to cope with co-located colleagues in a better way. Here are some virtual team building…
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Visualizing Product Development Work
“Whenever you’re thinking high level, someone will bring you down to earth and ask you to get into the weeds. Whenever you’re in the weeds, someone will complain that you’re not being high level enough. It’s the burden we bear. Just when you think you’ve figured things out, you’ll encounter a person who needs to…
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Measuring Success
Success is not measured by points or project management type metrics; it’s measured by ‘is the organization meeting its purpose’ Tom Poppendeick
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No free lunch
found at Twitter by @johncutlefish
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Why are we so slow?
found at Twitter @johncutlefish
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An Appreciation for Uncertainty
Uncertainty is something we try to avoid – whenever possible. We want to know what we need to know, to be able to come up with reliable plans. Plans are supposed to keep deviations away from us, as they could make us struggle. Uncertainty can be seen to impose scepticism, doubt, mistrust. But it is…
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Deviations in motivators for an agile transition
When I was starting with agile teams many years ago, my main motivation has been to create more robust delivery processes. When I was looking at the findings, I was realizing, that I was not able to drive change by myself, so my motivation changed to empower the people in the teams to take actions…
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free agile! – Get out of the scrum
Agile methods are getting more and more grip in a fast-paced business world – mainly because they promise easy adaptation to change. But listening to people working in such agile setups, quite often they suffer from it than that they benefit. Why?