Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Want Happier Employees? Stop Dominating the Conversation
If one person does all the talking at team meetings, the group probably has a communication problem. Sharing ideas is a risk, and team members calculate this risk before speaking up. Companies that make people feel comfortable sharing their ideas are likely to have more engaged employees and a lower risk of burnout, according to a new study.
How These Companies Are Solving the Pain Points of Agile
Agile tools are only meant to support development tools, not drive the process. According to Nick Muldoon, co-founder and co-CEO of Easy Agile, instead, development teams should have an evolving set of practices in place that enables them to continuously deliver value to customers.
Industry News & Analysis
How Agile Tames Tough Software Problems
Truly modern software is dynamic and constantly upgraded on a weekly, daily or even hourly fashion. Such software is often self-healing and designed to reconfigure itself if there are unexpected loads or events. Firms like Netflix make systematic efforts to try to cause the system to fail so that they can make it ever more robust.
The Latest from Retrium
Expert Hot Seat: Biggest Retrospective Successes
In this episode from the Expert Hot Seat series, we celebrate success! The retrospective coaches share how they achieved some of their retrospective success stories.
Agile Outside of IT
Are We Witnessing an Agile Revolution in Client Onboarding?
But this was before 2020. Since the beginning of the pandemic, financial institutions had to adapt to new challenges at an extraordinary speed. Whether dealing with working from home requirements, remote onboarding processes or the digitisation of services usually provided in-branch, the concept of agility gained unprecedented industry attention.
How to Turn Your Remote Marketing Team Into an Agile Marketing Team
Once the exception rather than the rule, marketing teams working on a completely remote basis are now not only ubiquitous, they’re looking more and more permanent. Google’s recent announcement (no doubt the first of many) that all its 200,000 employees would be fully remote until at least July 2021 has many leaders looking at their remote teams with a new perspective.
Business Agility
Future Of Work: Why Agile Workplaces Are Now More Important Than Ever
“Agile working is the practice of creating a flexible and productive environment by providing employees with a variety of settings that they can move through quickly and easily in order to support an activity-based environment.”