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Category Archives: CollaborationGlobe-trotting team coach and author Jean Tabaka will be my special guest in Dallas, December 11-13. You win with access to more expertise! With over 25 years of experience in the software development industry, Jean’s work has taken her throughout … Continue reading Projects@Work published an excerpt from Kimberly Wiefling’s new book evocatively titled Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces. I haven’t read the rest of the book although I look forward to doing so after seeing … Continue reading Last week in the Southern California mountain resort town of Lake Arrowhead a small group of senior leaders came together to launch their trek toward building a great company. I was honored to support them. And they were thrilled with … Continue reading As promised, here is the pdf of our slides from Michael England’s and my discovery session think tank at Agile 2007 last week in Washington DC. The Thursday afternoon session was titled Agile Ghettos or Thriving Communities: Are Agile Principles … Continue reading
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Today is day three of Agile2007 in Washington DC. For engineers, project managers, and developers there are lots of interesting sessions about engineering and development things. I'm interested in the 80% of engineering that isn't engineering but might instead be … Continue reading
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I just finished teaching Knowledge Team Leadership to a very appreciative audience from Stockholm and Gothenburg. Here’s a picture of the class doing a final flip chart review—an exercise where student becomes teacher and reviews all of the material from … Continue reading
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Tagged Knowledge Team Leadership, Provins Fem, Sweden
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The monthly Agile Project Management E-Mail Advisor I write for the Boston-area think tank Cutter Consortium hit in-boxes today. It’s titled Collaborative Leadership Basics, Part 10: How Do You Get a Team to Develop a Clear and Elevating Goal? You can get any or all of Cutter’s email advisors by signing up for them. Here’s a brief excerpt from this one, then I’ll connect it to a fascinating email I received yesterday: Continue reading Mike Griffiths, blogging at Leading Answers, recently wrote that he was leaving his employment of six years at Quadrus Development and starting a new gig. Then Mike went on to say that he read some helpful teamwisdom in my book … Continue reading The March 2007 issue of Modern Plastics magazine recognizes Partnerwerks client ATEK Plastics for their amazing four-year turn-around story in which Responsibility Redefined played a role in re-building the culture and focusing both leadership and plant employees on a powerful … Continue reading Originally published by the Cutter Consortium Agile Email Advisor. Used with permission. by Christopher M. Avery, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium More in this series Collaborative Leadership Basics: Part 1: Why Is Collaborative Leadership Required for Agile Environments? Part 2: Develop … Continue reading |
