Working as developers in Scrum teams, we continuously submit our code to be scrutinized by our peers. With written language being fragile and easy to misunderstand, pull requests can quickly become a breeding ground for demotivation and resentment.
It is very common for a team to pick up a piece of software and look at what has been written and decide, it’s simply trash. People believe that it can be built better. That the tools that the legacy software was built in have been superseded and the product …
Allowing Agile people to form their own Scrum teams, through team self-selection, can be a powerful approach to promote empowerment and to form viable teams with fast transition towards high performance. However, if the process is not carefully facilitated, team self-selection may lead to dysfunctional teams and disgruntled team-members.
Is agile now more about process than people? Frameworks tend exclusively to process & have no opinion on how engineers should build software. At it’s core, XP is all about engineering & “Continuous attention to technical excellence”. It’s time to put the spotlight back on XP as a path to …
Are you a manager in a world that increasingly wishes you didn’t exist? The positional power structure of traditional management is at odds with an Agile approach. But, don’t despair… there’s hope!
What a joy to be in a key leadership position in one of the largest-ever corporate experiments: the transition to new ways of Agile working. The presenter was accountable for establishing and operating the Centre of Expertise, New Ways of Delivering: how we uplift culture, delivery & technical capability.
