I wanted to take a few minutes to let you know about a big change, as if 2020 was not interesting enough. As most of you probably know, I’m not a big wordsmithed-announcement kind of guy, so this is my informal write up. I started a new company, Helping Improve LLC, with longtime collaborator Paul […]
Global Listening When Remote Many people are working from home at this point and this will obviously continue for a while. Many organizations had already been working remote. I’ve worked on a number of remote teams and with a number of remote organizations well before the current situation we are in. I’ve done remote work […]
Kanban Training References Below is a list of references we use and mention in our Agile Kanban Training. If you are looking for additional information on a topic I mentioned (or one I did not), please let us know – Jake Calabrese and Mark Spitzer. Feel free to connect or subscribe to stay in touch! […]
Fist of Five Voting is a deceivingly simple process you can use to check-in, learn, gain consensus, and/or vote to understand where people stand on an issue or idea. I say deceivingly, because there is so much more you can learn about what is really happening in a team if you are paying attention. I […]
How did we arrive at this place where so many people believe that self-organizing teams do not need help? The fact is, self-organizing teams DO need help. What teams can experience: Teams might not know exactly what kind of help they need or even how to describe it. This can be especially true if they […]
We require environments where people can provide input and ideas. If we limit engagement, we limit success. We still have organizations who either believe or act like they believe some types of workers are “stupid.” This idea dates back to the ideas surrounding Scientific Management, Fredrick Taylor, and Henry Ford. The concept of the stupid or […]