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A typical Communication Issue
Knowing is not telling. Major communication issue in our day to day interactions is the things "we" already know. Either it makes us bad listeners or it we simply assume, we have shared our knowledge with others already. Especially the assumption, that we have told others about what we have on our mind, is a…
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Cynefin Lego Game
The Cynefin framework is used to help decision makers to understand the domain, they are operating in. It offers four contexts: simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder. They offer a "sense of place" from which to analyze behavior and decide how to act in similar situations. In general it is important to know what type…
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Cross-Functional People
Subject matter experts are silos - subject matter expertise needs to be shared. If experts are leaving a project, the subject stays. By then, if you are not able to close such a gap from within your organization, expertise needs to be bought from the outside. There is only one profound way to come around…
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Where is the truth about agile?
Looking for a place, where you can find out more about what agile really means to us and how it helps to shape our future? Here you go - freeagile.org.
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The four big Hs of an organization
Many people are talking about agile today. Decreasing costs, increasing speed and quality, and the urge to empower employees to contribute their full work force to the growth and success of an organization. Even though there is a great side effect of agile.
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A Discussion on SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Spotify, and more
Lot's of discussions are going on in the internet on possibilities to scale agile. There are various frameworks, which are gaining more and more popularity. This post points to one of the discussions at Agile Uprising on the topic.
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Courage doesn’t always roar
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: “I will try again tomorrow”
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Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral with Mob Programming
“Let’s say you are at a company with 10 people; price’s law states that approximately 3 people will be responsible for half of the productivity of value. Scale that out to 100 and now it’s 10 people who are responsible for half the productivity of value. Now scale that to 10,000 and you have 100…
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Daily Routine – The Agile Mastery Challenge
What makes up a great scrum master? Test yourself and take a close look how you or your team is perceiving the daily routine.
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Experiment Together. Improve Together. Win Together
“An organization that establishes safety as a prerequisite and experiments together, will improve together, and win together.”
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6 Ways to Motivate Individuals to Become a Winning Team
“Intrinsic motivation is essential for high-performing teams. Those leaders who understand the difference between internal and external motivators and know how to harness them will have the edge on their competition, on the field or in the marketplace.” “Praise the effort, not the outcome.”
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You’re responsible for your rose
The fox in "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry points at the responsibility we take for each other
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Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership
A write up of some exciting and astonishing discussions experienced in the Meetup "Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership" of the Agile Munich group.
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Do you know what Scrum Masters do or don’t?
(Missunderstood) Stances of a Scrum Master
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Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Working with people who are different from you may challenge your brain to overcome its stale ways of thinking and sharpen its performance. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. [button url=”https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter” target=”_blank” size=”small”…
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