Agile Performance Appraisals without a number
Karen Greaves shares her experience of giving and receiving performance appraisals in different organisations, including what happened when she tried a new way.
The Self-Organising Organisation – Total Squadification at Trade Me
Inspired by Spotify’s squads and Atlasssian’s Ship-it day we let 90 people choose what they wanted to work on and who they wanted to work with. Through telling the story […]
People, System, Culture: Where Leadership Thrives
If, as Jerry Weinberg points, leadership is a process of creating an environment where people become empowered let’s focus on how we create and evolve environments we work at. One […]
Six Rules for Change
Change is often much slower than hoped for, and more painful than anticipated. In the end, you may be left with feelings of frustration and dismay rather than the benefits […]
Agile Productivity
More, faster: everybody wants that. Low productivity makes products late and expensive, frustrating both teams and customers. But what is productivity? Why is it so hard to measure? Organizations want […]
Leading Global Teams
The agile movement got its start with small collocated teams. Sometimes we have that luxury, but for most enterprises, software development is a global operation. Tams are distributed and often […]
Road to No Management
We often connect leadership with management. It is a common misconception. On one level – self-organizing teams – we find it rather easy to accept that these are in fact […]
Leading in a complex world
Thanks to globalization and the emergence and wide spread of new technologies, the world has become a very interconnected place during the past decades. This change has happened and is […]
