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Yesterday marked fifteen years since the 9/11 attacks on the United States and I'm feeling reflective about tragedy and how we respond. I realize this is a heavy subject for the start of your week, …
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This is a different kind of post. It's more personal and a bit longer. But there is a message for anyone who considers himself or herself a leader, a change agent, or even a follower. Allow me to set …
In my prior blog post, I mentioned how we formed our group of volunteers for the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando. Now let me share how we stormed, normed and performed at the gathering! …
Sometimes I ask for feedback and other times I feel I can serve someone by providing feedback. Also there may be cases where you are taking on a new role and you may "shadow" someone to see how they …
Over the last couple of weeks, we've been trying out a new peer feedback system at Sonatype. I asked for feedback from some of the teams I coach. One of those team members shared the following image …
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Over the last 10 years, while learning how agile methodologies can work in different industries and organizations, I also discovered how I could help distributed teams work as if they were face-to-face teams. So I am starting a series of posts where I hope to share some practical tips for those of you who lead […]
Let’s help Rally alumni have a chance to Rally On!
While speaking recently at a conference, I realized two important things about the nature of remote work. First, I choose to work remotely. Second, many of the people who work remotely, particularly in large organizations, did not choose this way of working. I had roughly 200 people attend my talk at the Global Scrum Gathering […]