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Book Review: Management 3.0 It's challenging to be a manager or a leader, much less both, and the challenges are greater on an agile team. Jurgen Appelo's book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders explores what management and leadership mean in a world of agile and self-organizing teams. |
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Eliminate Workplace Jargon and Get Your Ducks in a Row The business world is full of jargon: words that sound like they mean something, but what exactly isn’t a sure thing. These vague, overused, and trite phrases increase the potential for misunderstanding. Here's why you should think outside the box (there's one phrase!) and eliminate jargon. |
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From Jeff Bezos—A Valuable Lesson on Competition Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently addressed a group of children at an elementary school. There was was one particularly interesting sound bite: "Who succeeds at Amazon? Explorers and pioneers. Who fails? Those who focus on killing our competitors." Here's why you shouldn't obsess over competition. |
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Can You Build a Team through Team Games? Venkatesh Krishnamurthy asks: Can you build effective teams through games? Remember, team building is not a one-time thing—it is an ongoing exercise. It needs constant nourishment from the stakeholders and team members. |
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Playing Devil’s Advocate: Use Premortems for Your Project’s Success Most teams could benefit from having a devil’s advocate—someone who would help the team identify weaknesses in their thinking and seek changes that would prevent or minimize adverse outcomes. A project team can become its own devil’s advocate by using premortems before the project proceeds. |
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Let Your Teams Design Their Own Approaches to Agile If you are thinking of agile as part of a program, each team has to have its own approach to agile because each team has its own risks and problems. If you treat people as adults, explain the desired results, and provide training and other resources they need, they are likely to succeed. |
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Multiple Views of What It Means to Treat People with Respect Treating employees, coworkers, and superiors with respect is a key component of good management. But did you ever stop to think that respect can mean different things to different people? Read on to discover the varying ways people can show respect. You might learn something about your team. |
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Can You Have Too Much Communication? In matters of communication, more is not necessarily better. Sure, too little communication can result in low morale, confusion, and mistakes, but too much communication can be just as bad. If everyone is busy communicating, no one is getting work done. Read on to learn about quality communication. |
