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Placing Rules on Self-Organizing Teams

Good read over on Mike Cohn’s blog about dictating rules to agile teams.  Yes, it’s perfectly fine for leaders to place rules on self-organizing teams.  We give teams boundaries, and that is fine.  You...

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Making Sure They Do It the “Right Way” -LeadingAgile

“How do I know they are going to do it the right way?” The question came from someone who was moving out of the role of lead developer into a Product Owner role. The short answer, “You don’t. You have...

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Empathy Driven Development: Rescuing Value from the Bermuda Triangle | The...

Empathy Driven Development An approach to developing software that relies on team members making decisions based on empathy towards impacted stakeholders. Source: Empathy Driven Development: Rescuing...

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What Do Managers Control in Agile? | Agile Answer Man

A manager on an agile project controls empowerment, which drives how much and how fast value is delivered to an organization. Every design review meeting, status report, security assessment, dashboard,...

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Why Physical Task Boards Still Matter -LeadingAgile

while counter intuitive and seeming to cause more work, having a physical task board in addition to your online tool can be a big boost on your way to becoming a high performing agile team. Source: Why...

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Locking Cadences to Optimize the Whole Scaled System – Not Really…| Paul Boos

The complicated-ordered process thrown on a simple-complex team yields a complicated-complex result.  This isn’t achieving what we wanted… Source: Locking Cadences to Optimize the Whole Scaled System –...

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ScrumMaster: Servant Leader or Secretary? | The Agile Management Blog

In Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) courses, many Scrum myths are busted. One such myth is that the ScrumMaster is somehow an administrative assistant to a development team, to a product owner or to an...

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What’s a Scrum Master Do When a Team Member is Not Performing? | Agile Answer...

Scrum Masters are in a position of servant leadership. We are tasked with managing the scrum process, not the team members. We are coaches, not task masters. Source: [QUESTION] What’s a Scrum Master Do...

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Misconceptions about Self-Organizing Teams | Esther Derby

Self-organizing teams are not teams gone mad. Like all teams, they need a compelling goal, skills, information, and enough time to form and perform. And they still need managers to create a supportive...

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The Peer-To-Peer Bonus System

In a business that depends on collaboration, you should receive your bonus from your colleagues (not from your manager) with a peer-to-peer bonus system. Source: The Peer-To-Peer Bonus System This is a...

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