by Diane Gombart | Nov 15, 2023
Have you heard the common sentence “We don’t do business based on emotions?” I have news for you: Emotions are the silent drivers of our most pivotal life decisions. They possess a quiet dominion over the choices we make, often without our conscious...
by Diane Gombart | May 18, 2023
Part 1 – Building a remote high-performing Team In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, remote work has become more common for many organizations. While the debate is heating up between remote work detractors and remote work advocates, I’d...
by Diane Gombart | Apr 18, 2023
The day we will stop talking about estimation and arguing over story points is not today among the Agile community. After my article on estimation the cumbersome eternal debate I thought I would be done talking about estimation for a while. I was wrong! A few days...
by Diane Gombart | Feb 24, 2023
The cumbersome eternal debate Over the last couple of weeks, there have been a lot of conversations in my LinkedIn feed around story points and estimation in general. Many people believe that story points are essential for team planning and delivery, while others...
by Diane Gombart | Jan 9, 2020
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...
