How decisions are taken in your company, department and team?
Working in a multicultural environment brings its lot of challenges. One can even be puzzled as to what to expect in terms of decision-making process. Decision-making may include strategic, plotted, organizational, operating, personal, planned, programmed, and...
The best meeting is the one we don’t have
Today, let's talk about meetings! Hold on, don't run away... at least not yet Do you feel you have too many meetings a day? Do you regularly say to yourself "this meeting could have been an email"? Do you find yourself in meetings where you don't know what to do to...
Scrum ruins great engineers… or not
Few days ago I came across this article on Stack overflow. It took me a few days to think about it and I want to share some thoughts on what the article called the scrum pitfalls. Scrum pitfalls or no Scrum pitfalls? The article mentioned ten nine scrum pitfalls that...
Covid-19: How to maintain trust in your team?
With Covid-19 the world went suddenly upside down. Most businesses had either to close or send their employees to work from home. In a brief fraction of time, working from home exploded and massive contingency plans had to be established in an emergency to allow the...
Using the high-performing tree in retrospectives
In this post, I will explain how I used the metaphor of the "High-performance tree" created by Lyssa Adkins to convey the concept to a team and build on it during retrospectives. The metaphor is widely known nowadays among the agile coaches world and it is described...