What Does Your Organization Reward?
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.Vol 9, #14: Your Culture:What Does Your Organization Reward? July 31, 2012 ISSN:2164-1196 In This Issue: Your Culture: What
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Your Culture: What is Okay for You to Discuss?
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 9, #13: Your Culture:What is Okay for You to Discuss? June 13, 2012 ISSN:2164-1196 In This Issue:
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Building Rapport
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 9, #12: Building Rapport Apr 26, 2012 ISSN:2164-1196 In This Issue: Building Rapport Johanna’s New Book Available Now
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Distributed? Yes. Alone? No.
Distributed? Yes. Alone? No. As I’ve sent these Pragmatic Managers about geographically distributed teams and received these responses from many of you, I keep hearing one theme: “I thought I was the only one dealing with this issue.” You are not alone. Many of you have sent emails and asked questions. I answered those privately,
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Developing and Nurturing Respect in Geographically Distributed Teams
Developing and Nurturing Respect in Geographically Distributed Teams Joseph, a tester, was reading an email from a developer in Germany. He exploded out of his chair, and ran to the product owner. “Those people have no respect for us! How can they ask us to do this?? Don’t they realize what they are asking for?
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Building or Maintaining Agility in Geographically Distributed Teams
Building or Maintaining Agility in Geographically Distributed Teams By now, with all of my tips, you have a good idea about how to start a project with your geographically distributed team. You have a project charter. You have a timezone bubble chart. That helps everyone see where people are in the world. Those two things help
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Managing Timezones in Geographically Distributed Agile Teams
Managing Timezones in Geographically Distributed Agile Teams Your managers have asked you to start a project with people all over the world. What’s the first thing you might do? Draw a bubble chart of time zone dispersion to visualize your time zones to see who is where and offset by how much. I bet that
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Micromanagement is Not Transparency!
Micromanagement is Not Transparency! Do you want to know what your geographically distributed team is doing? Maybe your team has a sticky-card wall. Or a kanban board. And, maybe they post pictures of it on their wiki. Or, maybe they use a tool and talk about their status in their standup meetings. And, maybe because
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Using Checkins to Create Transparency
Using Checkins to Create Transparency Do You Want to Work More Effectively in Geographically Distributed Teams? In preparation for our geographically distributed teams webinar last week, Shane and I asked people what their greatest challenge was for their teams. Many of the comments were about communication and trust. One question was this: “How can I help
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Building Trust in Any Team
Build Trust in Any Team (Distributed or Collocated) On agile projects, the daily standup is one of the ways the team members build trust. The team members complete work every day, and make micro-commitments to each other every day. Making and keeping these commitments builds trust. And, when you’re not all together, it’s just a