A Scale of Expertise for Story Points I’m currently working on a presentation that is ostensibly about the Dunning Kruger (DK) effect (note: I’ve linked to the Wiki, but the meme “stupid people don’t know how stupid they really are”...
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In “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” Christopher Avery suggests that collective leverage and power does not come from distributing and delegating accountabilities, but from collectively demonstrating responsibility for the entire result, with each member doing their best to make their...
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Governance Principles Planning is everything, the plan is nothing – plans are not commitments, they are useful tools Primary purpose of Governance is transparency – alignment will follow Secondary purpose of Governance is auditability – accountability will follow In calculating...
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One of the problems that teams can easily fall into is that after a while the team stops feeling the pain of missing commitments. The commitments becomes aspirational goals that somehow don’t seem to get reached … “well we tried,...
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June 5th was my first retrospective with the team since being appointed as their Scrum Coach. One of the main challenges that the team had was that as a ‘NICE” team, they had fallen into a culture of group-think and...
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Throw away those personality tests and group therapy sessions. Getting your team to be highly performing is as simple as T.E.A.M. T is for Talk E is for Engagement A is for Accountability M is for Measurement Find ways to...
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