Good Leaders show up every day, keep things humming, and tell everyone they are doing a great job. Great leaders show up every day, they ensure the team is working on the right things at the right time and aren’t afraid to make a call to change the direction of the ship if it means the team can get better and stronger, they are always looking towards what is coming down the pipe, prepping it…
Have you scheduled it yet? Have you thought about it? Are you waiting for someone else to do it? What’s your Budget? Team events don’t need to be expensive, they can definitely be simple and their entire goal is to bring people together, have some laughs, and get to know each other better. The smallest team events that have been ad-hoc, end of the day, 30 minutes to an hour I rate better than the…
I originally titled this “Components of a Great Sprint Retrospective” – but behaviors is the better word. You can have all the processes and systems you want but at the end of the day, it’s the behaviors that the team excuses that make a team’s Sprint Retrospective successful.
Someone can tell me that putting my hand on fire is going to hurt. I don’t need to experience it for myself – whether I know you or not – I’ve seen what it can do to a piece of wood and can draw the conclusion myself, irrespective of how well I know you. However, when the scenarios are less than known, how much we trust the source doling out the knowledge adjusts how much…
You can stare at the ceiling. You can roll down a hill. You can walk in circles. You can throw a ball in the air. You can mouth syllables from your mouth in odd ways. You can make that annoying sound that no one likes but you. You can stare at a tree and think about leaves. Free time isn’t meant to be productive, it’s not meant to achieve something, it’s different than practice, learning,…