Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Under Pressure: 6 Ways to Be a Good Manager in an Ongoing Crisis
As the Twitterverse put it, “We’re not just at home working. We’re at home, during a crisis, trying to work.” Over the past year, crisis mode has become the new normal. Even the most fortunate among us is likely struggling in some way. Knowing this, good managers everywhere are feeling pressure to “fix” situations for their teams. Guess what? You can’t fix this crisis.
5 Starting Points for Agile Transformation
Now, companies need to figure out how to keep that momentum and maintain the speed and agility they gained in a world shaped by changing customer demands and ongoing economic uncertainty.
How Modern Agile Principles Helps to Maximize the Productivity of Your Functional Teams
Development teams generally use to align their practices to agile as well as lean methodologies in order to achieve higher productivity and efficiency. However, Modern Agile is quite a new methodology for achieving excellence. The term was coined and explained by Joshua Kerievsky in the year 2016.
In this article, we will read about the 4 core Modern Agile Principles and how can functional teams utilize these principles to boost their productivity.
5 Inefficient Communication Habits That Cause Waste
It’s not hard to believe, we have a tendency to waste a lot of time communicating whether it be through face-to-face, talking, texting, emailing, or chatting online. The problem with that is that everyone’s bad habits can get the best of you whether you like it or not.
Tips & Tricks
Build A Culture That Fuels Courage, Not Fear
Emotions drive behavior, not logic. And one of the most potent emotions is fear. Given the rollercoaster of the last 12 months, and the uncertainty of what still lays ahead, there’s a lot of fear swirling across the Zoom-ways right now.
Why Red-Yellow-Green Status Reports Distort Reality
To create a simplified model for quick and easy digestion, you reduce the layers of details down to an abstract representation. This can be helpful because it’s easier to see patterns in a simple model, but it’s important that everyone remains mindful of how many steps away they are from the detailed reality.
Industry News & Analysis
Forget What the Agile Manifesto Says: Distributed Agile Is Here to Stay
Agile purists have taken this to mean that unless your team collaborates face-to-face, you will be at a disadvantage. That mindset has been dangerous and wrong, because it has resulted in "rules" that require people on agile teams to be in the office, reversing previous policies that allowed for greater flexibility. But trust does not depend on seeing someone in person.