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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Remember ten years ago, when online shopping brought “EBay” to mind? When I moved to downtown Seattle in 2001, I sold a barely-used sports car on EBay. A year later I bought a motorcycle on EBay. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share [...]
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When we’re anxious about the way things are going, we have an urge to do something. Doing things makes us feel like we’re helping, reducing our anxiety. This is part of being human, and usually it’s beneficial. Sometimes this urge compels us to interfere with natural processes working the best they’re going to. Why have [...]
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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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Danube’s ScrumWorks development team, along with other agile tool vendors, was recently challenged by a well-intentioned fellow named Mark Levison to see just how “Agile” we really are. In other words, do we eat our own dog food. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with [...]
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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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