Tips & Tricks
How to Spot an Agile Faker
Articles, tweets, and cartoons describing the evils of agile are an Internet search away. A backlash against “soulless agile” – the charade of teams going through the motions without positive intent, simply because of a mandate, or because “this is just the way it is” – has contributed to the rise of new practices like DevOps. There have also been calls for developers to abandon agile altogether.
The Latest from Retrium
Retrospective Hot Seat: When All The Problems Seem Out Of Your Control
Even the most capable agile team has to deal with issues outside of their control. The experts share how they keep teams focused on issues that they can control
Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
How "Human" Is Your Workplace In The Digital Age?
Oakland, CA (August 2020) - As the Digital Age advances and technology takes over more jobs, workers must get better at those “human” skills computers can’t do. They must excel at critical thinking, innovative thinking, collaborating, and emotionally engaging with others in the creation and delivery of products and services. Most of all, one must excel at continuously learning…and unlearning…and relearning. Ed Hess calls this last piece “Hyper-Learning.” And he has a question for leaders: Does your workplace nurture these skills and the Hyper-Learning that powers them? Or does it do exactly the opposite?
Explaining Agile To Your Boss? Here’s How
Business agility is a complex multidimensional concept, as shown in the table below. Explaining each dimension to a traditional boss is more likely to result in mental overload and frustration than comprehension, even if he listens to the whole explanation, which itself is unlikely. Can the magic of metaphor help?
How to Foster Psychological Safety in Virtual Meetings
When Covid-19 was recognized as an emerging public health crisis earlier this year, tens of thousands of employees were sent home from offices around the world to start working from home for the foreseeable future. It may take years before we understand the full impact of this abrupt shift to virtual work on people and companies, but it wasn’t long before many started to wonder about the impact of virtual meetings on psychological safety — people feeling they can raise questions, concerns, and ideas without fear of personal repercussion.
Technical Agility
Agile Manifesto vs Water Explained
These two terms are popular regarding project management: Agile and Waterfall methodology, but which one should you use? How do you determine the difference, and which one is better and has a practical approach?