Stuff we’ve been thinking lately
by João Reis As usual, three Scrum Masters and I were drinking a coffee and talking about our daily grind at Walmart.com, when a common problem emerged during our dialogue: How to improve our grooming meetings? In my opinion the grooming meeting is the most important factor in a Sprint. Do it well and your...
Read moreby Sergey Kotlov A couple of years ago, a series of articles about a company called Futurice and how they were creating a workplace environment in which people loved to go to work was published here. At the time I didn’t imagine for a minute that Futurice would become one of the first companies to...
Read moreToday’s guest article comes from Britta Ullrich, a team leader for the XING User Insight Team in Hamburg. Britta had used the Management 3.0 Personal Maps exercise during two of her team workshops. On preparation of her last workshop she decided to mix up the exercise; moving the focus onto individual and collective successes of...
Read moreby Louise Brace “How can we engage upper management during change management?” In this article we’re going to delve into a question that we explored a little while ago during one of our Happy Melly Coffee sessions, you can see the context of the discussion below. How can we engage not only employees, but also upper...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins As we all work at least in the periphery of the agile world, we sometimes realize that not everyone’s agile. Not everyone’s got it figured out. Not everyone wants to be a coach or start their own business. Sure, most people want to be happy at work, but that doesn’t mean they...
Read moreby Agilista.me Last week a friend of mine told me a story that I wanted to share with the rest of the world. A couple of years ago he was working as a line manager. Together with a colleague he managed a group of about 25 people, consisting of two teams. Each team was responsible...
Read moreby Durgesh Kumar Mishra I am an agile coach by practice and visualize everything in an agile way where happiness and culture are major ingredients. Happiness at work or at home is a win-win situation. Happy, engaged people are healthier, more productive, they have more ideas and are more likely to contribute over and above the...
Read moreby Sander Huijsen Not long ago, I was asked to facilitate a project retrospective. The reason I was asked to do this was because the Product Owner wanted someone from outside the team to run it. It was pretty clear that ‘political reasons’ might be the underlying source of the request. When ‘political reasons’ enter...
Read moreby Wim Thielemans Working as a coach, trainer and facilitator since 1996, I get to hear a lot of feedback from employees during training and workshop sessions. Many of these workshops are about getting people to take actions that fit a particular project, such as value definition or customer care projects. We often received comments...
Read moreby Charles-Louis de Maere What do you do when two coworkers just don’t get along? How can you find the root of the friction? Learn how one team found a way to renew employee engagement and eliminate a lot of frustration by uncovering intrinsic motivation at the office. (Context) A few months ago, I started coaching at...
Read moreby Robie Wood ImprovAgility is a program for developing Agile mindset and behaviors in teams, team members, managers, and executives. It’s about Being Agile. James Highsmith puts it best that Being Agile includes the ability to: Foundational to developing the Agile mindset is practicing to become an effective collaborator–the first part of engaging–as well as understanding the...
Read moreby Louise Brace Our colleague and friend, Lisette Sutherland of Collaboration Superpowers is an expert on the subject of working from anywhere. She demonstrates through her podcasts and workshops, just how easy it is to work outside of the traditional office environment with all of today’s super tools we have at our fingertips. As it becomes...
Read moreby Durgesh Kumar Mishra I am an agile coach by practice and visualize everything in an agile way, where happiness and culture are major ingredients. Happiness at work or at home is a win-win situation. Happy, engaged people are healthier, more productive; they have more ideas, are more likely to contribute over and above the...
Read moreby Andy Cleff The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. After a several decades of collocation, I’ve started working with distributed teams. And I’ve observed first hand how incredibly liberating a remote structure is for myself, our teams and our organization. We are able to hire the best...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins OK maybe it’ll take you more than 20 minutes in the end, but creating a truly agile and actually useful business plan in about an hour ain’t too shabby! Today we go into how to create a down-and-dirty prototype of a business plan to get you moving and to get you focused!...
Read moreEditor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0 was under the umbrella company called Happy Melly One (HMO). Any reference to HMO is from that time and does not apply to today. by Pilar Orti Trello has become a very popular project management tool with both collocated and virtual teams. I have been using...
Read moreby Alex Heinz We spend about half of our waking day at work, so shouldn’t we be doing something that makes us happy? For some, happiness comes from working with a great group of people, for others it’s about working towards a worthy cause. There are many factors that play into workplace happiness including work...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins How does a corporate culture grow? How can you nurture the growth of exceptional organizational culture? How do we create a working environment that people will be proud of? We spend so much time talking about business strategy, but aren’t happy workers the best strategy? Happy workers are more loyal, more productive,...
Read more“But it is unfair!” the man from a German car manufacturer said to me. “Those new companies who are getting into the car business.” (He meant Google, Apple, Tesla… Wikispeed.) “They don’t have all these legacy systems that we have to maintain.” Indeed, I thought, and what exactly is the problem? Start a new company, if...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo Repeat after me: “I love my work.” Go ahead! Do it right now: “I love my work.” No? Does that make you feel uncomfortable? When you do your work not for the money but because you love it, will your boss stop paying you? The famous hierarchy of needs, created by psychologist Abraham...
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