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!
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Tag: teamwork
Teamwork: the combined action of a group of people, especially when effective and efficient. An emergent property from working in an environment filled with trust, vision, and collaboration.
The Power of a Good (User) Story
Ever since the dawn of our species, we’ve told stories.
We’ve sung them, told them around campfires, painted them on cave walls, drew them on clay pots and canvases, woven them in tapestries and carved them into stone. Eventually we wrote them down.
Today, we share stories via sticky notes, podcasts, town halls, planning meetings and daily scrums.
Slowing Down to Speed Up – Effective Asynchronous Communication for Teams
After many years of being part of 100% collocated teams, I’ve returned to working with 100% distributed, virtual, or remote teams. To remain effective, high-performing distributed teams rely on a number of important factors such as trust, ownership, a focus on results, and effective communication to get stuff done.
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. …
Where is the “I” in Teamwork? Collaborate for Success
How does your organizational structure lend itself to building the best product for your customer?