Agile mindsets for high performance teams and businesses

Intent Based Leadership with David Marquet

Imagine a workplace where everyone engages and contributes their full intellectual capacity, a place where people are happier and healthier because they have more control over their work — a place where everyone is a leader…. All of this is possible, but not with the current leadership paradigm.Our world’s bright future will be built by people who have discovered that leadership is the art of enabling. The steps getting there are evolutionary. The result will be revolutionary.

Creating Great Teams via Self Selection

Andy Cleff November 18, 2017 March 28, 2024 Agile / Collaboration / Leadership

Self selection, the fastest and most efficient way to form stable teams, is based on a belief that people are at their happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with.

Why Red is Good for Status Reporting

Andy Cleff November 7, 2017 February 4, 2024 Agile / Collaboration

Listen in on a discussion around Red-Amber-Green (RAG) status reporting and the use of this style of information radiator. Learn how Red is Good.

Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams

Andy Cleff October 25, 2017 March 28, 2024 Agile / Collaboration / Retrospectives

Listen in to this Agile Uprising podcast on Dynamic Reteaming with guest Heidi Helfand, Director where we challenge the notion that we need to keep our software develop teams “the same” in order to be successful.

Distributed Team Retrospective: Communication, Collaboration, Empathy and Explosions

Andy Cleff August 22, 2017 April 22, 2024 Agile / Collaboration / High Performing Teams / Problem Solving / Retrospectives

Teams often experience a breakdown in communication. Sometimes it will be around requirements, or expectations, or priorities. Other elements that contribute to difficulties in collaboration and delivery of value include component silos, and specialization. All of the above can be particularly pronounced with virtual teams.