Management Techniques for the 21st Century From [...]
I’ve been binge-watching a show – Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD – and noticed something quite peculiar. The management techniques of the leaders of the [...]
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Category: Pointers
Sustainable Pace - What Is It and Why Do We [...]
I just recently saw an article about an upcoming video game called Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor – Martyr that made me think about a term used in a lot of agile circles – [...]
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Distributed Teams Revisited - Tips and Tri [...]
I’ve been working with distributed teams for a long time – about twenty years now. Some of those teams have been based in Europe, some in India, and some across the [...]
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The 3-A’s of Agile Interviewing
I spent about 3-years working at a company called iContact from 2009 – 2012. While there I reported to their CTO – Ralph Kasuba. Ralph was a wonderfully skilled [...]
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Shock Therapy – Revisited: Bootstrapping [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company. I remember it was approximately 2008-2009 when I read a blog post, then article/paper about this idea. [...]
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The 95% Rule for Agile Leaders
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company. Now that I think about it, a “rule” sounds a whole lot more formal than I intend it. Perhaps [...]
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Leadership Agility Compass – Reframed
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company. I’ve often held the perspective that there is no real ‘L’eadership roles within agile [...]
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Self-Direction; Self-Organized … Really?
One of the core ideas or principles of agile teams is this notion of a self-directed, self-managed, and self-organized team. In my experience, it’s one of the [...]
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Creating Self-Directed Teams – A Question of [...]
Over the past few months I’ve been coaching my clients who are in the early stages of adopting agile approaches for software. Most of them are adopting Scrum [...]
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Building Agile Teams – A Primer for Organizat [...]
This is a continuation post. In part one we set the stage for a few of the consideration factors in building agile teams. Here we continue to explore [...]
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