Douglas McGregor developed two contrasting theories for the behaviour of individuals at work arguing that your view of...
Leadership Plays
As an Agile Leader you need to develop a leadership style which is significantly different from traditional management.
Agile promotes a non-directive, low-ego style of leadership in which teams are empowered to make decisions, supported by leaders.
These Plays discuss how Agile leadership can best be performed.
No man is an island, entire of itself
A team works together towards a common goal. There are a number of sharing activities which act as "bridges" to the...
What do we mean by “psychological safety”?
Central to successful retrospectives is team empowerment. The team must feel able both to propose change and to...
Agile viewed in three dimensions
Agile is often portrayed as a continuum from "Waterfall" to "Agile". However, this linear view is too simplistic and...
Team leadership in Agile development
In Scrum the team itself does not have a leader. Success for this approach depends strongly on circumstances. In...
“Management as a Service” in Agile
Successful technology companies make teams more independent. This distributed approach to management I refer to as...
Rapid feedback as a key to decision making
Increasingly successful technology organizations are moving away from hierarchies to more distributed management...
Schrödinger’s cat and software productivity
Productivity is a challenging concept. Like Schrödinger's cat, software teams can seem both productive and...
Leading with questions
Increasingly the role of a modern leader is not to answer questions but to raise them. Questioning drives...