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The Scrum LEGO Workshop, a Real-life View into How Scrum Teams Work

Since the beginning of 2019, I have been part of the organising committee of Agile Malaysia (we are are also on Facebook and LinkedIn). The group has been active for about five years, but it needed some fresh blood to engage our community. We are all volunteers, passionate about Agile and intending to create a strong knowledge-sharing community. Our committee is made of Agile Coaches, Managing…

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#facilitation #lego #lego workshop #scrum lego

Embrace Conflict, There Is No Collaboration Without It

I was talking about feedback to a C-level in a startup the other day: “Criticism as feedback is a learned skill, but there are ways to warm up people to it“, I said. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to call it criticism or negative feedback. It has quite a harsh connotation. I would call it improvement feedback“, he replied.

This is a very open, transparent, and caring company, but not ready to…

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#collaboration #conflict #conflict profile #high-performing #organisational conflict #team conflict

Changing the World Starts with Changing Yourself

It’s a beautiful, sunny day in April, 15°C in the mountains. I’m on top of the world, literally, in Bormio, a beautiful resort in Northern Italy. I’ve been snowboarding the entire day and I’m content in the warm sun. A week ago, when I arrived, I sadly looked at this slope from below; “I’ll never get the courage to ride that“, I was thinking. Yet here I am, starting down the slope singing out…

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#growth #life goals #passion

You Can Make Change Happen. Just Drop Everything You Know About It First

If you google “organisational change” you get 45.300.000 results. You’ll drown if you start digging for some really practical information, that you can apply now.

Google no more. This blogpost will give you all the information you need on organisational change, and resources to look into for more. As a bonus, the centerpiece of the blogpost is going to look at one concept that is perfectly…

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#8 accelerators #brave new work #change #change management #change process #hbr #hbr on change #influencing language #john kottter #nlp #organisational growth #shelle rose charvet #transformation #words that change minds

You Can't Change Your Organization Without Embracing Vulnerability

You Can’t Change Your Organization Without Embracing Vulnerability

The Interview

One hour before I had the interview I changed my clothes, brushed my hair, put on some makeup (my son’s having night terrors was taking a toll on my face) and prepared mentally. I checked my internet connection, Google Hangouts, made sure everything was functioning. I was ready.

The interview went well, until it got to the tough question. You know which one, the one about…

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#change #creativity #shame #vulnerability #weakeness

Scrum 101 from the Trenches (1). What no Training Teaches You

Scrum is currently the most popular product development framework. It’s also the framework I used the most and I am most comfortable using. It’s a simple framework, but not easy to implement.

I am going to write a Scrum series, where each post will tackle a part of Scrum, with information on its purpose and definition, to which I will add the interesting part: what Scrum training doesn’t teach…

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#agile framework #SCRUM #scrum from the trenches #scrum guide #scrum values

How to Run a Retrospective with More than 50 People

The retrospectives we ran with the tech teams became quite popular in my former company. The rest of the company got interested in running their own retrospective events, so we started running retros with marketing, social media, product launch, content team, films teams, etc.

One complexity I encountered was when I was asked to run regular retrospectives with the team leaders guild(as they…

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#50 people retrospective #agile #agile retrospectives #continuous improvement #guild retrospective #Learning #retrospective #SCRUM

A Retrospective That Pushes Learning and Brings Forward the Agile Principles

Some years ago our teams decided to commit to increasing their Agility (coming from a background of doing Scrum), with a focus on the Agile principles and living them every day.

After workshops and discussions on the principles and how we can reflect them better in our work, I experimented with a model of retrospective that was meant to reinforce the principles andpush for continuous…

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#agile #agile principles #agile retrospectives #continuous improvement #inspect and adapt #reflect #retrospective

Spike Up Your Next Retrospective With These Activities

I’ve described in a previous post why the retrospective is the most important event you will run in an agile transformation. For the retrospective to fulfill its role, it needs to be effective:it has to happen in a safe space, the team needs to look into data and generate insights based on actual information from the team’s activity and results, and it needs to end up with an action plan that is…

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#agile #agileretrospectives #continousimprovement #retrospective #SCRUM

Master Retrospectives and You Master Team Learning

I believe all Agile principles are equal in importance and they work together holistically: focus on customers, iterative development, self-organised teams, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. But this last principle is “more equal than the others“:

Continuous improvement is the heart of Agile. Without reflection, there is no learning, without learning there is no continuous…

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#agile #agile retrospectives #continuous improvement #diana larsen #ester derby #Learning #norman kerth #retrospective

Give and Receive Feedback with Radical Candor

The fireball: my first feedback story

It was one of my first jobs, the debut of my career. I was working for Procter & Gamble, in Bucharest. The Romanian branch had just opened a procurement center (intending to transfer all procurement activities from Brussels and Geneva) and I was employee number four of the new center. I was also a small tornado, wanting to do things fast and change…

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#feedback #julie zhuo #leadership #manager #positive feedback #praise #radical candor #transformation

Practice Empathy with Nonviolent Communication

Empathy and emotional intelligence emotional intelligence are the focus on management and leadership research. Not only that, but it’s considered a core skill for just .. being human. The success of teaching children empathy brought the idea that adults can be taught too. Fortunately, there are a lot of tools to learn empathy, and here’s one of them.

These are questions that nonviolent…

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#Coaching #communication #emotional intelligence #empathy #feel #honesty #marshal rosenberg #nonviolent #nonviolent communication #nvc #understanding

Increase Your Team's Performance with The Culture Map

Increase Your Team’s Performance with The Culture Map

I’ve been living in Malaysia for over five years, working for a company that employs more than 60 nationalities. My first Scrum team had 8 nationalities (of 8 team members), spread across all spectrum of cultural differences. My family is also multicultural (my son has Romanian-Malaysian genes, plus influences from Romanian, Chinese, Malaysian and Indian cultures).

Coaching my first team…

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#cultural differences #cultural dimensions #culture #culture map #erin meyer

Becoming a Skilled Facilitator - A Framework

Becoming a Skilled Facilitator – A Framework

An Agile Coach wears many hats – coach, trainer, teacher, mentor, consultant, conflict navigator – but my favourite role as a Coach is by far is facilitating groups.

There is an immense satisfaction in being the force behind group problem-solving, helping a group navigate through their issues or conflicts or get clarity and create ideas.

There are different tools you can use to facilitate…

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#agile coaching #Coaching #facilitator #roger schwarz #scrum master #skilled facilitator #team coaching

What Are Self-Managed Teams?

All Agile frameworks base their hypothesis on self-managed or self-organised teams. But what does that mean? The definition varies from organisation to organisation, and from person to person, but there is a standard way to define the concept.

Late J. Richard Hackman, Harvard psychology professor and one of the leading experts in group psychology, who spent over fifty year to determine what are…

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#Agile Teams #authority matrix #hackman #high-performing #self-managed #self-organised #teams

Know How Your Team Works for better collaboration... why am i writing this?

Know How Your Team Works for better collaboration… why am i writing this?

A little under ten years ago I started to work with software developers. Coming from a business background, my predominant work was related to communication and relating. But I started to work with people who would spend more time in creating, designing, and building products. I had to relearn my entire approach to work, communication, meeting settings and generally my working style.

Learning…

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#makers vs managers #makers vs menders #visionary vs integrator

What Is Agile Anyway? The Agile Manifesto (2). Principles

After diving into the Agile Manifesto and discussing the Agile Values here, this post is entirely dedicated to the accompanying principles.

Originally, the 12 principles of Agile software development were split in three categories: customer, managers, teams (see below a copy of the original manifesto), each category having four principles.

I. Slanted towards Customers:

The first four principles…

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