3 Key Skills for Servant Leaders
Servant Leadership is a big buzzword these days. Everyone knows Scrum Masters and agile managers need to be servant leaders, but often it’s difficult to… Read More »3 Key Skills for Servant Leaders
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The Four Day Work Week
About a year ago, we made a fairly major decision at Growing Agile. We realised we were too busy, so we decided to work less. We… Read More »The Four Day Work Week
Monthly Retrospective Plan
We hold a retrospective each month, to see how we are doing. We started with the standard retrospective template, but over time we’ve added some… Read More »Monthly Retrospective Plan
7 tips for being an Agile Manager
We recently gave a talk at the ITWeb Software Development Management Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. We decided to speak about what should a software… Read More »7 tips for being an Agile Manager
A Coaching Experiment
This month Karen and I were lucky enough to have 2 unplanned sessions with a group of other coaches. It was so great to talk… Read More »A Coaching Experiment
My agile performance appraisal talk – what I didn’t say…
After I received the feedback on my Agile 2014 talk on Performance Appraisals without a number, I realised the talk missed the mark for some people.… Read More »My agile performance appraisal talk – what I didn’t say…
Agile Manager? What does that mean?
A tweet yesterday by a client got me to write this post. Here is Maritza’s tweet and a few others we shared. Over the… Read More »Agile Manager? What does that mean?
Why measuring productivity is bad for business
I recently attended Dan North’s Accelerate Agile course. One of the things he talked about was why measuring productivity is such a terrible idea in… Read More »Why measuring productivity is bad for business
Agile Performance Reviews
I gave a talk on Agile Performance Reviews at the South African Scrum Gathering. You can find my slides here: Agile Performance Appraisals: SGZA13 Talk… Read More »Agile Performance Reviews
Happy Teams – a guest post by Alex Kjerulf
Alex Kjerulf is the Chief Happiness Officer. We met Alex when he was in Cape Town a couple of months ago. He is indeed VERY… Read More »Happy Teams – a guest post by Alex Kjerulf