Many people like to believe that they can “multitask” effectively. However, research suggests that there is a cost in...
Team Plays
Central to Agile principles is the idea of self-managing, cross-functional teams.
This is a powerful approach but not an easy concept to put into practice.
These Plays look at how we best build teams and make sure that scalability is at the heart of how we work.
Using the Prime Directive for retrospectives
In a Retrospective it is important that everyone feels able to speak openly. This is summarised by Norm Kerth in the...
If parallelism is bad, why are we all doing it?
There is no obvious “upside” to working on multiple items in parallel. And yet it is the normal behaviour in...
Groupthink risk for high performing teams
Groupthink is when members' striving for unanimity overrides their motivation to realistically appraise alternative...
Retrospective mindset and the Prime Directive
Kerth highlighted how much this is due to the mindset with which the team approach the retrospective, which we would...