Many people are confused about the concept of self-organizing teams. They either equate it with anarchy or confuse self-organizing with self-forming, self-directed or self-managing. What does self-organizing really mean and…
Learned HelplessnessThere is a well-established process for domesticating young elephants that demonstrates the process of learned helplessness everywhere including organizations and agile teams. When elephants are young they are secured…
Agile project management approaches for estimating and forecasting are better than traditional approaches because they deliver better and more predictable results. This is what I call reality-based forecasting. Traditional Estimating…
Most leaders would claim that they want high performing teams but many of them don't know what it takes to create them. In some cases, leaders actually behave in ways…
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Indispensable = Key Person Dependency I received an email last week that had the subject line, "Become Indispensable to Your Organization”. It bothered me all week. Why did it bother…