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Change Agents Culture Organizational Change

Coaching in Times of Deep Organizational Change

When an organization makes an announcement they are letting people go, how should an organizational change coach respond?

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Organizational Change

How To Thrive in a Networked Organization – Part Two

As more and more organizations attempt to gain agility and nimbleness by creating a network of autonomous teams, more and more of the people in those organizations are struggling to visualize or realize how they can be a contributing factor in this new world. In Part One, we reviewed the key characteristics of network. New […]

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Incredible Teams Testing and Quality

The Tester and Conversations About Quality

In two previous posts, When Developers and Testers Collide and Defending Your Position, we discussed the challenge Agile teams may have when shifting testing activities from a period of time after development is finished to become a collaborative activity occurring as close to the point of development as possible while the team is working in […]

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Incredible Teams Most Shared Transformational Leadership

The Curse of Allocation

Have you ever been assigned to multiple projects or teams at the same time? If so, I’m sure you have experienced the “curse of allocation.” You know how it goes. You are assigned to be 25% on this project and 50% on another one. Let’s throw in 20% to support an existing product and another […]

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Incredible Teams Team Building

Agile, Motivation, and the Köhler Effect

A couple of summers ago, while training for some crazy adventure, I was running with a friend of mine who is considerably faster than me on a Saturday morning long training run. Throughout the course of the run we were chatting and moving along at a steady pace but during the last half I noticed […]

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Incredible Teams

How to Be an Amazing Agile Teammate

Being on an Agile team can be a fascinating and exciting yet daunting experience. Working in a highly social and fast-paced inspect and adapt Agile environment will require a team that is nimble, productive, and “in the zone.” The people comprising this team must operate within their role at a high level and focus on […]

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Incredible Teams People Scrum Master

On-boarding a New Team Member

As a Scrum Master for an Agile team, you will need to bring new team members onto an existing team from time to time. Make them feel welcome, included, and productive by considering a couple of these ideas: Get the team involved. This often happens but if it doesn’t, ask the hiring manager to include […]