Delegation. It’s easy to say but maybe not as easy to do. For managers to be truly successful, they need to delegate. Even if you are not a manager in a company, delegation is something that you should be aware of it and how it can help you.
Read MoreBefore starting to define what a high performance team is, I would like to explain what a team is. In my point of view, it can be defined as a small number of people working together to accomplish the same purpose.
Read MoreAt the beginning of my career as a Scrum Master I transitioned, as many others, from a Project Manager position. This is the kind of role where you “own” a team. You are not part of the team, you “manage” the team: performance reviews, career development, vacations, salary adjustments, all this kind of things. From one day to another, you have an agile team. Roles are supposed to be functional; titles don’t matter here, right?
Read MoreThese days, after some years of improvement with lean, agile, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming and so on, you can find tons of blog posts talking about “the best of Scrum”, “why Scrum doesn’t work”, “how to do …”, well, you name it. In my experience, after quite a few companies and teams, I came to a point where you have to realise what are you talking about. You can think about reorganizing your department, your team, and the way you plan or execute, … that’s great but did you see a pattern behind all these movements?
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