If you’ve been following the work of behavioral economists and authors such as Dan Pink, or you’ve read my article What Your HR Department Doesn’t Know About Scrum, you already know that truely Agile organizations have abandoned last-century’s habit of treating employees as rats in a B.F. Skinner box with conditional punishments and conditional rewards, [...]
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Coaching is an artful conversation in which the coach helps the coachee see new perspectives and possibilities so they can take the next step in their personal and professional growth. In the context of agile teams, coaching takes on the dual flavor of coaching and mentoring. Yes, you are coaching to help someone reach for [...]
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Unnecessary task switching is wasting millions of dollars of human attention. Teams lack the focus and months of continuous membership stability to reach the self-managing state needed for high performance and high quality.
This fibrillation isn’t caused by having “too much to do” or “not enough resources” or “changing business climate.” It’s caused by bad habits and misconceptions.
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Does your ScrumMaster make business decisions for your team/PO? Does he make technical decisions for your team? Does he make promises on behalf of your team? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]
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An important part of the Certified ScrumMaster course I teach is the question and answer session. Typically held near the end of the second day, it gives attendees a chance to ask questions about specific issues they are experiencing with Scrum in their own organizations. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share [...]
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Earlier this month, I received a question from a participant in of one of Michael James‘s CSM courses about how to integrate UI design into the Scrum framework. I’d already been working on a post addressing this subject broadly, but the inquiry provided an opportunity to summarize my main points while including some specific considerations [...]
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