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In a seismic shift that has sent shockwaves through the agile community, the Agile Uprising announced today that it has successfully completed a hostile takeover of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Agile Alliance, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and Scrum.org.
Agile is dead. So says this guy. And this guy. And this guy says it’s not dead, but it’s mainly fake. We’ve also got “light” and “dark” agile…how did we get here? Ivar Jacobson theorizes that technology works in twenty […]
A great read. Thank you. Question: when the salve becomes a whip or an excuse for poor behaviour how do you bring it to a place of usefulness again? As I was reading further. I came along this: https://qz.com/820763/psychological-safety-is-crucial-for-great-teamwork-but-it-has-a-dark-side/ Powered by […]
Sometimes American corporate culture surprises me. It goes so over the top into dysfunction, that I want to believe the HR folks are pulling a prank. But alas. The following guidelines, from a US-based, Fortune 50, Telecommunications “Giant” (reprinted verbatim) […]
Think about your organization or work unit. Do they value innovation and employee participation? If you believe the answer is “yes,” read on. On the other hand, if your organization truly cursed by silence, and the risk of speaking up […]
With a shared definition of the dimensions of silence and voice as well as an understanding of why silence is not golden, let’s explore some of the organizational dynamics and leadership behaviors that cause employees to feel their opinions are […]
People in all kinds of jobs, all kinds of organizations, all kinds of situations, reach a point where they want to say, “Enough.” They have the same uncomfortable realization: “I should do something about this.” Yet many remain silent. They […]
Do you know what secret powers each of your team members possess? Do they know your superhuman capabilities? How do they help the team reach their shared goals? How might the detract? Use this retrospective technique to find out! The […]
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about team safety and the curse of organizational silence. That situation where people in all kinds of jobs, all kinds of organizations, all kinds of situations, reach a point where they want to […]
While a team can rollback a code push that didn’t go well, refactor a feature that didn’t hit the mark, the one thing they can never recover is lost time. Use this retrospective technique to expose the thieves of time […]