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Appreciation at Work
As organizations across the world are experimenting better ways to sustain their employees’ engagement, appreciation and recognition programs have flourished in the last five years, among the best, if not the best, tool of predilection for making employees feel valued. Appreciation benefits are not limited to companies’ performance; they also benefit individuals and teams.
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Can Your Meeting Kit Cut It?
Every team meets. Most run their meetings the same way their grandparents and their grandparents' grandparents did. Meeting records predating the Romans describe a leader pontificating, brief back-and-forth discussion, then a conclusion with an inconclusive bit of mumbled agreement. Meetings haven't changed much in thousands of years.
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Article Series - Remote Meetings
In this series we’ll look at how teams worldwide are successfully facilitating complex conversations, remotely. And we’ll share practical steps that you can take, right now, to upgrade the remote conversations that fill your working days.
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Great Global Meetings: Navigating Cultural Differences
Navigating cross-cultural differences can be hard enough when team members are face-to-face, but when most communications are through some kind of technology—email, phone, IM, video, or online conferencing—it becomes infinitely more complex.
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The Death of Agile and Beyond
Agility as way of being for teams and organizations is crossing a critical juncture. In a very unique state of affairs, Agile is being adopted by organizations in various domains whilst many Agilists are expressing concerns that Agile has field. This article looks at the current state of agility, the challenges it faces and proposes some ideas around how Agilists can change the situation.
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Agile around The World - A Journey of Discovery
People in different parts of the world exhibit behaviours that can either fit with agile or be an impediment. David Spinks and Glaudia Califano are travelling the world to explore how national cultures impact agile adoption.
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Mastering Remote Meetings: How To Get—and Keep—Your Participants Engaged
Increasingly, software development is seen as a creative, collaborative undertaking. If poor remote meetings are impeding collaboration, how much damage could that be doing?
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Q&A on the Book Right to Left: The Digital Leader's Guide to Lean and Agile
The book Right to Left: The Digital Leader's Guide to Lean and Agile by Mike Burrows explains why we should focus on the outcomes, and how working backwards from those can help us keep this focus so that the needs of customers are better served. It takes a right-to-left view on existing Agile and Lean methods, bringing a needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to digital delivery.
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Balancing Generalists and Specialists– Building Successful Agile Teams
Dave West of scrum.org discusses building successful agile teams, by exploring the concept of generalist vs. specialist team members, taking a look at technical skills and the balance of those skills, along with the job titles of those team members.
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Empathy is a Technical Skill
Empathy, like software, is a deeply technical topic that can challenge you in the best way while making your life richer and more rewarding. This article explores how an empathy-focused approach to software development can help pay down technical debt, increase automated test coverage, build trust among team members, and contribute to the overall health of a software system.
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The Challenges in Integrating Cross-Boundary Teams
Cross-boundary teams are the hub of innovation. However, creating and nurturing a cross-functional team for innovation is a challenging task. It needs a deep understanding of the nature of knowledge, diversity and interactions within a team. Managers and team leaders can infer valuable information from a deeper understanding of the contextual and knowledge level challenges in such teams.
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Scrum & The Toyota Production System, Build Ultra-Powerful Teams
How to use the Toyota Production System, as a knowledge-building system, to reveal learning topics on which to work to develop outstanding Scrum teams for exceptional results.