Why Self-Organizing Teams are Better
People seem to be easily confused about the concept of self-organizing teams. They confuse it with self-forming, self-directed and self-managing. What do all these terms mean? Are they all the…
Will Your Agile Transformation Improve Employee Engagement?
Several years ago, I wrote an article on the importance of Employee Engagement and it's relationship to Agile Methodologies. In the last week, I read a newly published article from…
For High Performing Teams, Stop Assigning People to Multiple Teams
In an effort to do more with less, most organizations take their best people and assign them to multiple projects. This approach rarely leads to high performing teams and actually…
We Fix Bad Scrum
We’ve all seen it - Scrum Gone Bad I think we have all seen Bad Scrum and misuse of the Scrum Framework. Sometimes Scrum started out good with a solid understanding of Scrum,…
Agile Transformation Challenge #3: Couldn’t Form Cross-Functional Teams
This month I’ve been writing about the reasons that various organizations have found that Agile didn’t work for them. They encountered an Agile Transformation Challenge that they couldn't overcome. I…
10 Questions PMOs Should Ask their Agile Teams
I was working with an Agile coaching client this week. Even though they are a large and conservative firm, they want their technology teams to become more Agile. They have just…
Agile Transformation Plan – 5 Questions to Ask When Forming Teams
A key part of an Agile Transformation Plan for an organization is forming the Scrum teams. The starting point for most organizations is typically a functional organization such as developers, business analysts,…