The Fear and Vulnerability Retrospective
What makes your teammates lose sleep at night? The best way to find out is simple, but not always easy: ask them!
Category: Collaboration
Collaboration: the action of working with someone to produce or create something. An essential skill for high performance agile and scrum teams.
Agile Team Health & Morale Checks
A refresh to one of my more popular posts…
Now more than ever companies are exploring ways of measuring and visualizing how their teams are doing (KPI’s; ROV’s, NPS, etc.,)
The general idea being ya can’t improve what ya don’t measure. And without some sort of systemic approach with clear visualization – things would very much be a guessing game.
Cognitive Biases – Subjective Social Reality
When surveyed, 80% of software developers reported they believed their skills were above average. Overestimating one’s desirable qualities relative to other people, is known as the Illusory Superiority Bias, aka the Lake Wobegon effect, one of many cognitive biases.
Note and Vote: Effective Collaboration and Teamwork
Oh, boy, I failed again! I recently facilitated an event where at one point I struggled mightily. As I reflected on how I might have done better, I recalled the note and vote technique: Note and vote (aka Nominal group technique (NGT)) is a structured method for brainstorming/decision making that …
Decision Making Patterns for Teams
Change can happen within the borders of a team, as well as among teams of team. In all cases, it helps to have a clear process for how decisions will be made along the way. There are many patterns for effective decision-making within teams and at team boundaries. None of …