The Scary Truth about Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety is the #1 factor for individual, team and organizational performance. And it’s not what you think. It’s how you are.
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How to Define Roles and Responsibilities
Roles vs Responsibilities: How to share authority effectively and develop responsible people.
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Don’t Weaponize Agile
I hate “Agile” Initiatives because of the damage they usually cause. The problem is that when people start thinking that “Agile” is the goal they start to weaponize “Agile” and use it as a Whip or a Shield.
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Beyond Roles in Scrum
In this post we will explain how we can move to shared responsibility by focusing away from roles in Scrum.
Temenos: Containers for Growing Relationships
The Temenos container provides a powerful mental model for understanding and improving relationships with others. Too often we do not consider the larger context of the situations we are in.
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What is a Team?
Here is an infographic on “what is a team?”. I created it to help explain the concept in an upcoming workshop. Now I think it will be part of my basic Agile training.
How to Conduct an Informal 360° Review
Scott Edinger talks about how to conduct an informal 360° review for yourself: ask the people around you these four questions:
Three Ways to Use Play for Business Results
Play is a profoundly powerful tool for achieving business results. I think of three main ways to accomplish this: Using explicit play to do work, using play for learning, and building people’s play muscles.Read More
Constellation, Journeyline and Marketplace for Tuning Teams
Lyssa Adkins ran a very practical session at DeepAgile that shared several tools for team formation or for tuning up existing teams. She often uses these right at the project start since team members may know very little about one another – even if they have been working together for years. Here is a run-through of three of the exercises.
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Customer Team Helps Product Owners Survive
Part of my standard training for Product Owners is to help them understand how they relate to everyone else in an Agile/Scrum world. Hence the drawing below.Read More
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