Creativity: the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
synonyms: inventiveness, imagination, innovation, innovativeness, originality, individuality
If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend the book: “The Progress Principle.” The authors’ explored the question: “What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work…?” Plot spoiler alert: the title is a dead giveaway on what makes us and our teams tick: The strongest contributing factors: …
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 …
TLDR – Kaizen If you think you can make something better (in your personal life, within a team or a collection of systems you work on, a process in your company), do it. What is it? “Kaizen” is made up of two Chinese characters: 改 kai = “change” + 善 zen = “good” – So kaizen …
Try this experiment: Give your teams time and space to play.
That’s it. Don’t expect something shippable. Don’t plan to judge their output on the basis of business value. There will be no “right or wrong.” There will be no award for “the best idea.”
One of the 12 principles behind the Manifesto for Agile Software Develop is: At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. This adjustment of behavior can take many forms: from stopping a practice that is not fruitful to simply doing more or less …
