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Nurturing Leadership
I had an email conversation with a colleague about when you let people fail versus when you rescue them—how you nurture leadership. The context is with people who are new to management, or new to a particular piece of work … Continue reading
Building a Team Through Feedback
At Agile 2012, Lisamarie Babik and I led an experiential workshop called Building a Team Through Feedback. We didn’t have slides; we had a first draft of an article as our handout. We worked on that article, and now we … Continue reading
Management Myth 6 Posted: I Can Save Everyone
Have you been in a position where you–or your manager–wanted to save a difficult employee? Maybe you felt as if you bent over backwards to save an employee? Don’t do it. In this myth, Management Myth #6, I Can Save … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind Closed Doors, feedback, management myth, one-on-one
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Management Myth #5 About Ranking Systems Posted
I have another management myth, this one about ranking systems posted up at Techwell. This one, We Can and Must Have an Objective Ranking System, I suspect will generate much discussion. Be my guest!
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Tagged collaboration, feedback, management myth, MBO, one-on-one, performance evaluation, ranking system
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Overcoming Perfection Rules
I have a tough time with my perfection rules. I want to be perfect. I’m not, of course. I want to be. So using leanpub and publishing early and often pushes me way out of my comfort zone. Which is … Continue reading
Pragmatic Manager Posted & Update Site
I have finally posted my most recent email newsletter, Three Myths and Three Tips. It took a while because I was converting my site to WordPress and I did not want to maintain the site in two places. I have … Continue reading
Criminals, Thieves, and Lack of Transparency
Every so often, my blog gets plagiarized. I do a whois, find the offending party, have a short email conversation, and get that person to remove my content, and forget the whole thing ever happened. Not now. Right now, I’m … Continue reading
Managers New to Agile May Not Know What to Do
I’ve been working with several clients on their transition to agile. Yes, the technical staff needs training. Yes, they often need coaching on how to choose small chunks, estimate and commit to an iteration’s worth of work, and then to … Continue reading
What Should Done Mean?
Josh Kerievsky has an intriguing post about Redefining Done. The idea is that a story is not done until: A story isn’t done until it is being used by real users in production and has been validated to be a … Continue reading
Do You Track Project Outcomes?
I finally heard about the almost-complete financial numbers from the Agile 2009 conference. The conference is supposed to generate enough monies for the Agile Alliance to fund research, other conferences, guest speakers, and a whole bunch of other initiatives that … Continue reading
