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: Leadership
Leadership is an organizational capability, not a role.
Trust, Ownership, and Vision: Necessary Conditions for Great Team Performance
Three rivers – Trust, Ownership, and Vision – flow and converge into a confluence that helps create the necessary conditions for high performance, self-managing teams. Teams that adapt quickly to what their customers want. Teams that deliver great business value at a sustainable pace. Teams that are filled with happy people. …
Zombie Agile with Prof. Dave Snowden
Join host Andy Cleff as he chats with Professor Dave Snowden. Topics include the development of narrative as a research method, the role of complexity in sensemaking, physics, philosophy, the coffee/alcohol cycle, cognitive biases and if agile/Agile has gone astray.
Understanding Agile Team Metrics: Measure Many Things
Hawthorn, Goodhart and Friedman Walk Into an Agile Team Room – What Happens Next Will Amaze You… Velocity is one of the most commonly used agile team metrics. Teams (and their stakeholders) often focus on “improving velocity” without either a proper consideration for root causes that impact velocity or a …
Podcast with David Marquet: Implementing Intent Based Leadership
In his first book, Turn the Ship Around! David Marquet described his experiences as captain aboard the nuclear submarine USS Santa Fe. When he took command, the ship was, how shall we say… “underperforming” However, after one year, Santa Fe was recognized as the most improved ship in the fleet. In less than …