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Tag Archives: AgileImagine my delight when I saw Scott Dunn’s twitter post yesterday. I knew my topic last week at Agile 2011 was hot when 212 people crowded into a room with 200 chairs and then stayed energized for 3.5 hours! The … Continue reading Wow! IT leaders from a major retailer in the San Francisco Bay area valued the Creating Results-Based Teams workshop they attended. Here’s their internal survey results. Check the results from the second group. Download a PDF of this presentation. This … Continue reading I firmly believe that the software development movement — and now business movement — known as “agile” is a mindset and culture, not a set of tools and processes (see this related post). Agile coach Michael Sahota is writing a … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, business culture, Michael Sahota, mindset
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Everyone says they want to be on a winning team. And nobody ever says they want to be on a lousy team. So how come we end up on frustrating teams much of the time? Here are the steps you … Continue reading In one of my recent blog posts, Teamwork Basics: Creating Positive Interdependence in Groups, I offered three strategies you can use to get people feeling and acting like they are in the same boat together: Start shining the spotlight on … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Agile, Coaching, Collaboration, Consulting, Management Training, Teamwork
Tagged Agile, Christopher Avery, consulting, management skills, team collaboration, Teamwork
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The retrospective is a specific type of meeting in agile approaches that occurs at the end of an iteration in which the team reserves time and attention to discuss what worked well and what team members wish to improve during … Continue reading I was honored to be asked to give the keynote speech at Agile Day 2010 NYC in Times Square last month. I called it: “Are We As Agile as We Think?” Shared Responsibility Early in my speech I asked how … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Coaching, Leadership, Management Training, Personal Development, Responsibility, Teamwork
Tagged Agile, Leadership, psychology, Responsibility Process poster, Teamwork
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Apparently, the world is addicted to solving the wrong problem. And when we aren’t solving the wrong problem, we are seriously overspending on overly-complex, under-performing solutions. At least according to Rory Sutherland in this compelling TED video (below, keep reading). … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Responsibility
Tagged Agile, Leadership, problem solving, Rory Sutherland, TED
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This will give you a whole bunch of new mental images for the Responsibility Process. Give the video below time to load. It’s worth it. This short talk ranked 8th out of 150 presentations at the XP2010 international conference earlier … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Norway, Responsibility Process, Sergey Dmetriev, XP2010
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Leading Knowledge Teams to be Agile With the advent of lean thinking and agile methods, the old command-and-control structures are giving way to self-directed teams. Uncovering what makes these teams function effectively and what enhances or inhibits collaboration are questions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Knowledge Team Leadership, Leadership, lean, Teamwork, XP
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