How To Handle Team Conflict
Published December 3rd, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Talking with Christina Bowen about conflict resolution in project teams. This is episode 25 of The Project Shrink Podcast.
Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum Team
Published November 23rd, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
High performance depends on the self-organizing capability of teams. Understanding how this works and how to avoid destroying self-organization is a challenge. Until you understand complex adaptive systems and how Toyota works it is difficult to improve team velocity. Jeff Sutherland discusses three core topics:
1. Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams.
2. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise known as the choice uncertainty principle.
3. Punctuated equilibrium – how software systems evolve
Take advantage of these concepts and you may find a way to achieve the ultimate potential of a team.
Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: How to Build Any Team Any Time
Published April 30th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Knowing how to get things done with others over whom you have no control may be your greatest lever for career success. Learn key strategies and agile team applications from 20 years of field studies on getting things with others. Apply the Responsibility Redefined™ framework to orient, work in, build, lead, and maintain teams, partnerships, and collaborations of any kind.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/teamwork-an-individual-skill
Lean Organizations to Support Agile Teams
Published April 21st, 2009 Under General | Leave a Comment
Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the ‘next level’ and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile.
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/lean-orgs-for-agile-teams
Agile Testing by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Published February 14th, 2008 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment
As more teams are adopting Agile practices such as XP and Scrum, software testing teams are being asked to become “Agile” as well. But what does that mean? Is the Agile label yet another buzzword? Or could it be Agile practices are actually changing the way software is built? In this talk Elisabeth Hendrickson shares her perspective on how test teams can be more Agile based on her experiences working as a tester on Agile teams. Along the way, she’ll provide an overview of how Agile practices differ from traditional practices and discuss what those differences mean for independent test teams.