by Esther Derby | Jul 28, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management
Every team needs leadership, even self-organizing teams. When I make this statement, some people assume I mean that every team needs a designated leader. I can’t blame them, most people are accustomed to thinking of leadership residing in a role or a charismatic... by Esther Derby | Jul 13, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Organizational Change
Slides from a talk I gave on Double Loop Learning in Retrospectives: Double Loop Learning in Retrospectives View more presentations from Esther Derby And take a look at PROMOTING DOUBLE LOOP LEARNING IN RETROSPECTIVES. 
by Esther Derby | Jun 30, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Organizational Change
“The thinking that got us here isn’t the thinking that’s going to get us where we need to be.” attributed to Albert Einstein I have this niggling concern about retrospectives. I have no doubt that retrospectives that are too short,... by Esther Derby | Apr 26, 2011 | Leadership & Management, Organizational Change
A while back I talked to a CEO of a contract development shop. He wondered how Agile could help him with fixed price, fixed scope contracts to deliver software. Of course, the requirements that come with these contracts are never complete or completely accurate. The... by Esther Derby | Mar 21, 2011 | Organizational Change, Systems and Complexity
Not so very long ago, I made my living writing code. My colleagues and I did our best to understand what our customers needed, and to write code that was easy for other programmers to understand, solid, defect free. When our managers asked us how long it would take...
