Tag: Agile Leadership
Signs of Strong Teams: Persistence vs. Stubbornness
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When evaluating teams, two qualities often need clarification: persistence and stubbornness. Scrum masters, leaders, and managers must distinguish between these traits. Here’s why. Teams dominated by persistence don’t require gamification and external motivation to move forward and achieve goals. Of course, such tactics can be applied to these individuals, but…
How to Motivate a Team?
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So, how to motivate a team? My clients and mentees ask this question frequently. “How will you motivate your team?” Throughout my career as a manager, Scrum Master, and Agile coach, this question has relentlessly followed me in interviews at new companies. And as far as I know, it’s a…
The Strategic Value of Team Topologies
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The dynamic nature of the modern world demands quick reflexes and a strategic approach to team organization, making it a pivotal factor for success. The increasing complexity of IT systems require diverse and specialized competencies. This is why traditional cross-functional development teams are finding it increasingly challenging to manage the…
Between Just Scrum and SAFe Scrum: Product Owner role
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On the team level in SAFe, the same role names are used as in Scrum. This creates some confusion. Until the version SAFe 6.0, the process inside the team was called Scrum XP, and now it’s called SAFe Scrum. Both of these names suggest a kind of continuity, but one…
We Are Tired of Meetings
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This is the second part of the story about the role of meetings in agile approaches. In the previous part, we mainly talked with management about value delivery and its prevalence over utilization. We discussed the importance of self-assessment by regularly asking the question, “Is the thing we are currently…
Two Useful Things to Balance the Team’s Focus
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This short note – a summary of long discussion on whether an Agile leader should focus on continuous improvement all the time or whether it is sometimes important to stop and maintain stability and predictability.
We Need More Teams! Is It True?
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We are often approached with requests to help create cross-functional self-organized development teams. When dealing with such requests, it is important to understand the underlying problem the client truly wants to solve.
Does a Self-Organized Team Really Need a Team Lead Role?
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The role of a team lead in software development has been a topic of focus for me lately. I have been exploring the purpose, goals, and responsibilities associated with this position. Additionally, I have been pondering the value that a team lead brings to a team and whether this value…
