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Individual Yield

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Done,
Delivering Quality,
Removing Waste,
Quality,
Process Adoption,
Scrum Master,
Sprint,
Kanban,
Self-organizing Team,
Culture Change,
Lean,
Software Craftsmanship,
Scrum,
Project Management,
Continuous Improvement,
Adoption,
Best Practices,
Business/IT Alignment,
Antipatterns,
Agile Techniques,
Agile Manifesto,
Teamwork,
Culture,
Agile,
Careers,
Product Management,
Innovation,
Enterprise Architecture,
Prioritization,
Criticism,
Coding Standards,
Agile Tool Box,
Daily Stand-ups,
Programming,
Complementary Practices,
Kaizen,
Professionalism,
Community,
Debate,
Empowerment,
Patterns,
Agile Manager,
Principles,
Creativity,
Retrospectives,
Worst Practices,
Business,
Training

Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt, enumerates some practical points on individual procutivity. This article wonders how well these apply to software development and contrasts his list with that of other lists.

High-performance Teams – Avoiding Teamicide

Topics
Collaboration,
Self-organizing Team,
Adopting Agile,
Introducing Agile,
Teamwork,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Scrum,
Agile,
Empowerment,
Human Resources,
Professionalism,
Recruiting,
Diversity in Teams

High-performance teams constitute a mere 2% of the workforce, but Agile processes appear to stimulate the formation of these types of teams. This article discusses Steve Denning's perspective on how such teams can be nurtured in the workplace; it also looks at a recent talk by Ominlab Media's Stefan Gillard on how to select and employ for the formation of high-performance teams.