That’s a question many teams have struggled with since Covid19 changed our way of working since March. But to what extend did Covid19 change our way of working? In this post I like share my… Read More »How to handle the impact of COVID19 on teams?
Energy and transport organizations are committed to delivering responsibly and safely, preventing harm to our employees, contractors, local communities and the environment. Most organizations are also transitioning to Agile teams or are taking a more… Read More »Teams and Safety
During CITCON Virtual 2020 I hosted session on improving teams: looking for concrete handles. Reflecting on 25 team assessments. I attended around 9 previous sessions in different European Cities. Due to COVID 19 this session… Read More »CITCON Virtual 2020
Some people say life after #Corona virus may never be the same.. I don’t know about that, but for now life has definitely changed. I’ve been working with a #SAP DevOps team as a Scrum… Read More »Adjusting to a new “normal”
Finding out how to select the right people for a team is a third and critical essential condition for team effectiveness. This is also the million dollar question for most hiring managers. For me and… Read More »Team enabling condition 3: Right People on board?
Setting the team’s purpose for a self organizing team can feel counter intuitive. In a way you want to set the purpose of the team on the other hand you don’t want to be too… Read More »Team enabling condition 2: a compelling team purpose
Is a team a real team? This question might be silly to ask but coaching non-IT teams makes this very relevant. A real team is bounded, is interdependent of each other and is relatively stable.… Read More »Team enabling conditions: Real team?
Stepping back from the Scrum team best practices from team’s I ended up using Richard Hackman’s studies on teams. He identified 6 enabling conditions for team effectiveness: One, is the group a real team, with… Read More »Team enabling conditions
This article is part of a series of articles covering my journey on improving teams in software development and non IT teams. It will show my learnings on team development, team maturity, the role of personality and… Read More »Improving Teams series
The title Liberating Structures might give you the impression this workshop is a soft socialist gathering to release and involve every one and fly away. The contrary is true. In this post I will explain… Read More »Learnings from Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop
More and more organizations are adapting to scrum. Managers responsible for ‘managing’ resources get new challenges In general traditional resource management is on defining a new team for a new project and ramping down the… Read More »‘Managing’ Stable teams
In a previous article I wrote on 12 best practices for scaling teams and managing dependencies. I used the insights from SAFe, LeSS, NEXUS and Spotify. In this article I will focus on ownership, visualisation… Read More »Scaling teams and managing dependencies (Part 2)
