Undercurrents of Team Interactions
Effective teams deliver better results and more satisfaction. Yet, high team performance remains elusive. Unproductive conflict, personality mismatches, and poor communication undercut team efforts. Join us if you are on […]
Components of Kick-A$$ Collaboration
So you joined a self-organizing team and everything was instantly perfect. The team openly shares, deliberates and efficiently comes to full agreement. Everything is by consensus, everybody participates, and all […]
Turn Up the Good
Many things can hamper the effectiveness of our teams: Too many meetings, technical debt, bugs, multi-tasking, and so on. When we see these problems our first reaction is often to […]
Coaching Agreement as Creative Partnership
As an Agile coach, have you ever struggled with managing expectations of your role in the organization? Has magic in any shape or form been implicitly included in your responsibilities […]
Quickly Creating Psychological Safety During Change
What if your team blazed past the stress of the pandemic, complexities of remote work, and the great resignation without missing a beat? What if they went beyond efficiency & […]
Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure
It’s hard to practice coaching a team or an organization… without actually coaching a team or organization. So, we’ve created a set of “Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure” games similar […]
Managing Dependencies to Unlock Product Development Flow at Scale
As we build products with more teams (scale) it can become difficult to coordinate the smooth flow of work between those teams (dependencies). Dependencies often block work progressing and leave […]
Avoiding the Trap of “Good Enough” Agile Coaching
There are oodles of lite to moderately skilled and well-intentioned agile coaches in the world who are doing their best to help their teams and organizations transform. But there are […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Teens Who Smoke
If you had two options, one that gave you an 88% chance of success and another that gave you about 50% chance, which one would you choose? Would you be […]
Keep Your Head in the Clouds: Learning in Times of Stress, Crisis, and Change
If the last two years have shown us anything, it’s that things around us can change almost overnight. Our routines can be disrupted, how we perform our jobs, even how […]
Joy of Agility – Joshua Kerievsky
Agility isn’t a formula, a framework, nor a set of roles and rituals to follow. It’s a timeless way of thinking and being that matures with practice and skill. Becoming […]
It Was Never Just About Software – Agile and Our Planetary Challenges
If Agile is no “accident” and has emerged at exactly the right time, then what is its purpose in meeting today’s significant challenges and paradigm shifts? This is the question […]
