Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Should Your Team Adopt No-Meeting Weeks?
I read with interest about Google’s recent adoption of “No Meeting Weeks.” Initiatives such as this have been proposed and used many times by many companies in the past. Google’s is in response to the increased fatigue many of us feel from the shift to all-remote work.
Can You “Code” Your Culture? (#MLQH)
Culture is a big deal. Not only does culture apparently eat strategy for breakfast, an organization’s culture also has massive impacts on performance, achieving results, and attracting and retaining talent. Incredibly, some people still argue that the impact of culture can’t be measured—that it’s a nice-to-have without any demonstrable impact on the bottom line. To which the only real response is: OK, so point to a high-performing organization that has a crappy culture.
Seven Telltale Signs That Your Agile Journey Has Stalled
More than 90% of CEOs give high priority to being agile, according to surveys by Deloitte and McKinsey and most large firms are exploring business agility, at least in their IT departments. Yet these efforts are often limited in scope, and most of the potential gains are unrealized, owing to the lack of agility elsewhere in the fir
Psychological Safety: The Building Blocks Of Team Success
As philosopher Theodore Zeldin famously said, “When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?”
The Latest from Retrium
The Product Goal Team Radar Retrospective
Inspired by the updates to the Scrum Guide, the Product Goal Retrospective Template helps your team use data to evaluate if the goal you have created is designed to help the team work and collaborate as productively as possible.
Creating A Sprint Goal Retrospective
A new sprint is about to begin! The team has dozens of new ideas, but how can you focus in one creating a goal that will help the team the most for the upcoming sprint? That is why we created the sprint goal template.
Tips & Tricks
How to Give People in Online Groups Space to Think
Let’s look at this from a couple of perspectives, from helping online groups with their pre-workshop preparation, as well as what we can do within a workshop that you're running.
Dare to Fail Harder and Louder Together
Failure - genuine failure - how much of it have you had lately?
Probably more than you care to articulate or remember. We're not talking about failing at entire projects or missed major deadlines, not the catastrophic kind of failure, but the micro-failures. That wildly optimistic estimate. That ticket that had no business being moved from the backlog.