For several years now, I have written something about my experience at the Agile Alliance 20xx conference. I have been attending this conference every year since Agile2007. Yet, each time I am surprised by what I experience. I have written…
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Challenges, Guest Authors, Leadership
Leading Through an Unfortunate Reduction in Force (guest post by Bob Hartman)
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As promised, I’m going to occasionally have guest blog post. This one comes from my colleague Bob Hartman with Agile For All. —————————————————————————— I’ve been unfortunate enough to be on the leadership side of several Reduction in Force events. Let…
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Just a job
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As a leader, I think the words “just a job” are in the top ten worst things I can hear. Sure – there is the obvious damage to the product/service this person is providing. However, that’s not what guts me…
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But what about…keeping people from slacking?
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This may turn into a series of posts: “but what about…”. To start, I want to highlight a common question I get from managers in leadership and agile classes. Now it’s never the exact same wording but always the same…
Leadership, Techniques
Techniques for remembering
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One of the most important roles for leaders is this combination of challenging and supporting people with their growth. The problem for me is keeping all of the information straight in my head so I don’t forget. Over the years,…
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Vulnerability as a Leader
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Recently, two colleagues in the community shared something that they were struggling with in a public forum. One was tied to how challenging her book was to write. The other was in experiencing a situation where she felt bullied and…
Challenges, Leadership
Are leaders needed for self-organizing teams?
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Last week, I explained my definitions especially for self-organizing teams. So today, I’ll focus on the questions similar to “Are managers (scrum master, functional manager, team lead, project manager, etc) needed with self-organizing teams?”. First, let me highlight that I’m…
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What makes a team?
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I’ve been getting more and more questions similar to “Are managers (scrum master, functional manager, team lead, project manager, etc) needed with self-organizing teams?”. Before I can dive into this question, I decided to break this up into a couple…
Leadership, Techniques
LiveStream Experiments
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Several months ago, the Agile For All team was inspired by Peter Saddington’s experiments. We decided right there to experiment with livestreaming as Agile For All. Every Friday at 9 am, we go live based on a topic. I’m not…
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Last Day of Work Pet Peeves
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This round of pet peeves is focused on poor last day of work experiences (seems only fitting since I just had first day of work pet peeves): How, how, how: Most people give at least two weeks notice. I will never understand why…