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 …
Perfect feedback for an agile coach
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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Deep skills not soft skills
Something that always makes me wince is the term "soft skills". Dictionary.com gives the following definition of soft: yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, …
Serving Lean Coffee to build a Learning Community
Lean Coffee is a lightweight way for self-organizing a group of people together to share information. Originally started by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith in 2009 in Seattle, I have found it …
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What’s In It For Others? (WIIFO)
Last Wednesday I was invited by AgileBill Krebs to share my thoughts on the evolution of teams on Agile Witness News. We discussed some of the evolving enterprise agile frameworks and the …
The FmFuFo model for resonant teams
As a coach of coaches, this is a question I often get from new agile coaches and scrummasters. Many are familiar with the Tuckman model of teams: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing. But despite …
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