Dividing and Conquering: Finding the Right Size for Your Team
This post originally appeared on the PivotalTracker blog. Your small team has been doing great. You’ve delivered significant value to your stakeholders. You’ve shown noticeable improvement in how you work together…
Should A Manager Be A Scrum Master?
In a recent post, I discussed whether the Scrum Master and Product Owner roles could be successfully combined. As you probably recall, the answer to that question was a resounding…
Starting Your Team On The Right Foot With Team Chartering
This post originally appeared on the PivotalTracker blog. One of the best things that you can do to help your team deliver great products is to make sure your entire team…
Solving Capability Debt Within Your Organization
“We know it’s broken…but we don’t have time to fix it.” “Yes, we know it could be better…but we’ll fix it when we get farther ahead.” “Yeah, it’s not great…but…
Velocity Is Not the Goal
Teams that post consistently high velocities are often treated as valuable to the organization. However, those teams that tend to be more erratic...posting a high velocity one sprint then falling off dramatically the next...may not be as valuable as they may first appear.
Zappos and the Elimination of Managers
While the tagline Zappos abolishes Managers has gotten great press, in actuality it's a bit of an over-simplification of what's happening.
How to Build the Right Team
Did you know that payroll is usually the biggest expenditure of any software company? If you do, then it should come as no surprise that many companies tout the line ‘people are our greatest asset’. However, it can be scary just how little thought those same companies put into hiring the right people for their teams.