Coaching Pull
An important dynamic of becoming a fluid and well-functioning Scrum team is when team members are continuously pulling. As opposed to being pushed or waiting to be pushed, the team is in constant...
View ArticleAgile, Motivation, and the Köhler Effect
A couple of summers ago, while training for some crazy adventure, I was running with a friend of mine who is considerably faster than me on a Saturday morning long training run. Throughout the course...
View ArticleAgile Team Size and the Ringelmann Effect
Teams influence individual performance in many ways. In a previous post, we talked about the Köhler effect - the impact of having team members with lesser skills working with stronger teammates to...
View ArticleConflicts and Collisions in an Agile Environment
Have you ever been on a team when everything was “perfect” and conflict was avoided? Decisions were delayed and unique perspectives rarely brought forth. Perhaps you have been on a team with the other...
View ArticleEncountering Team Turbulence
In 2007, I had the opportunity to join a team of 12 to climb Aconcagua, a 23,000 foot mountain in the Andes of South America. While returning from setting up a high camp at 18,000 feet, our team...
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Building Out the Vision (Part 2 of the Agile Leadership Engagement Series)
If you are a director, senior manager or manager in an Agile organization, this post is for you. With an organizational vision in place, you will be expected to plan and build the teams and systems...
View ArticleSo, You’ve Just Joined a Struggling Team
It will happen to most of us eventually. We are asked (told) to join a team having difficulties and turn things around. The team may be challenged with missed deadlines, dysfunctional relationships and...
View ArticleThe Perfect Agile Team
In my soon to be released book, “Becoming a Catalyst, Scrum Master Edition,” I tell the story of a newly formed team working with Agile for the first time. This team had just experienced their first...
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