Category: Blog
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Coach’s Challenge – Today is another opportunity!
Embracing an agile culture and mindset mean that every day, every sprint, every iteration we have another opportunity to honor commitments. Commitment to delivering value to our shared customer. Commitment to our sprint (or iteration) goals. Commitment to our teammates. Commitment to ourselves! Agility also means allowing the opportunity for things to change. We are ok with ambiguity, because…
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Happy National Chili Day
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Happy National Do A Grouch A Favor Day
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Happy National Compliment Day
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Happy National Clean Off Your Desk Day
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National Answer The Phone Like Buddy The Elf Day
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Coach’s Challenge – Conduct a Black Hat Review
In the last post, I challenged you to start seeing mistakes as opportunities for your team to improve and grow. This week our coaching challenge is designed to help your team improve its psychological safety by making it “ok” (or even normal) to share ideas or perspectives that may be counter to what the rest of the group is…
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Coach’s challenge! – Schedule a “Mistakes Meeting”
Schedule your very own Mistakes Meeting! Creating a culture within (and across) a team that encourages people to live and breath the agile values and principles requires trust, and that takes being transparent, having a growth mindset and looking to continuously improve! One way to encourage an agile team culture is to start treating mistakes…
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An agile survival guide for 2021 and beyond
Of the many lessons that 2020 has taught us, I think we can all agree that the most important take away is the importance of being open minded and flexible. It’s hard to imagine a plan or a goal, personal or business related, that was set at the beginning of this year that wasn’t somehow…
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Happy National Train Your Brain Day
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