Tag Archives: management
We can’t go on living this way
For years I’ve assumed that when Agile principles succeeded at a team level they would naturally spread to other teams in the organisation until eventually the whole organisation would embrace openness and failing fast. I’ve naively been surprised when this doesn’t happen. I’ve probably been a bit slow, or perhaps my bias for optimism has lead […]
Painting over the cracks
Painting over the cracks is denial of feedback. When we paint over the cracks we hide vital information about the reality of our situation. Good teams strive to make visible and learn from the cracks. Whilst different personality types treat cracks in different ways a balanced team will not ignore them. In traditional organisations Managers […]
How do we approach what lies beyond?
So while we sit or stand, self organising and continually improving, having won the battles that gave us our freedom, my thoughts turn to what lies beyond our team. In organisations that have let the hippys run wild in development and reaped the rewards do the managers lie awake wondering if these crazy principles and practices […]
