Random Thoughts From My Quarantine
As I type this opener, I’ve snuck out of my house to a secluded bench in East Dallas near the lake I love. It’s a beautiful spring day that would normally have the bike and running path filled with attempted […]
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Helping Team Members Stretch Their Communication Muscles: Kantor Four Player Model
It takes many different mindsets and behaviors to make a team hum. I am appreciating a view of collaborative behaviors developed by David Kantor (as part of his work on Structural Dynamics), and am finding it useful as a way […]
New Voices in Agile: Nazee Hajebi
Cohosts Andy Cleff and Chris Murman explore two main threads with Nazee Hajebi – her experience leading up to, during, and after her Women in Agile 2019 talk and how unrealized/unprocessed trauma plays out in the workplace The post New Voices in […]
Trust, Ownership, and Vision: Necessary Conditions for Great Team Performance
Three rivers – Trust, Ownership, and Vision – flow and converge into a confluence that helps create the necessary conditions for high performance, self-managing teams. Teams that adapt quickly to what their customers want. Teams that deliver great business value at […]
What Would You Do If You Could?
Introducing the Itty Bitty Shitty Committee (IBSC): Sometime during my 50th trip around our star, I had a thought, “I should run a marathon before I turn 60.” And then those voices in my head kicked in with a nice […]
Understanding Agile Team Metrics: Measure Many Things
Hawthorn, Goodhart and Friedman Walk Into an Agile Team Room – What Happens Next Will Amaze You… Velocity is one of the most commonly used agile team metrics. Teams (and their stakeholders) often focus on “improving velocity” without either a […]
Agile Team Health & Morale Checks
A lot of companies experiment with ways of measuring and visualizing how their teams are doing (KPI’s; ROV’s, NPS, etc.,) looking for areas where there are opportunities for improvement. The general idea being ya can’t improve what ya don’t measure. […]
Canvas for Value Proposition Presentation
I know, I know. “Not another f*ing canvas…” But hear me out. I just finished reading Stephen Denning’s book The Agile of Agile. One of the many things I liked was Denning’s sharing of Silicon Valley icon SRI international’s NABC canvas […]
Resource Links: Six Steps Towards Self Learning Teams and Organizations
Download slide deck, handouts, and grab some of the books mentioned at Andy Cleff’s Agile2019 Presentation. The post Resource Links: Six Steps Towards Self Learning Teams and Organizations appeared first on Andy Cleff. Powered by WPeMatico
Leading from the bottom
I am a developer I am not the engine that moves the machine.I am a small cog in the system.I am important, but often unseen.I can be damaged and still function,but everything functions a little worse.I am never alone. I am […]