Facilitating Participatory Decision-Making Part 1
I have to admit, I always thought I understood exactly what Participatory Decision-Making (PDM) meant. I also prided myself on my facilitation skills - on dot voting, silent writing, fist of…
Why Self-Organizing Teams are Better
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…
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,…
A Framework for Evaluating High-Performing Teams
Are you interested in creating high performing teams? Would you like to understand why some teams perform better than others, or to objectively evaluate the condition of your current team?…
Are Cross-Functional Teams Your Agile Transformation Challenge?
Another Agile Transformation Challenge 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…
10 Questions an Agile PMO Should Ask Agile Teams
To be an Agile PMO means that you need to understand agile and Scrum and speak to the language of the teams. Many PMOs insist on getting reports and updates…
Agile Transformation Plan – Planning Agile Teams
A key part of an Agile Transformation Plan for an organization is forming appropriate agile or Scrum teams. The starting point for most organizations is typically a functional organization such as…