Interesting post from Bob Sutton on the obsession with individual talent, and the evidence that people are more productive when they build relationships and work togeher over time.
Someone recently described this situation on the Scrum Development list: “…we’ve found some members of the Scrum team working extra intensely to cover for poor performing people. For example, if the strongest developer pairs frequently with the...
Someone recently asked, “How would you go about inculcating the results from retrospectives [sic] back into the culture for the benefit of future projects?”There are two different approaches depending on whether the team holds retrospectives as they go, at...
A friend and I were talking about getting fired the other day. In my experience, most people who are fired are not unskilled or incompetent. They may be in the wrong job, which means there’s a poor fit between the skills, domain knowledge, preferences, and...
I’ve pointed out in a few posts that the environment (system, processes, structures, culture) and management are a huge factor in performance in organizaitons. And they are. But sometimes, it is an individual problem.Like this woman who works in a health care...
Mike Kelly has a nice post on diluting the power of appreciation. My experience is that genuine appreciations can transform many situations. A couple of years ago I led a year-long project with a distributed team–no two members were in the same timezone....
Johanna has been blogging about finding candidates who have experience with agile methods. So I’ve been thinking about the “typical” resume sifting process and how that might work/not work when you’re looking for candidates who have worked on...
