All posts by: Thomas Cagley

Team Topologies, Re-read Saturday, Week 10, Chapter 8 –  Evolve Team Structures with Organizational Sensing

We are nearly at the conclusion of Team Topologies: Organizing Business And Technology Teams For Fast Flow . Over the next few days, we will post a poll to get... Read More

Hierarchy, Fatalism, And Engagement Are Intertwined

Fatalism in the workplace is the belief that you can’t control or influence the work you do or how you do it. Engagement is a measure of commitment, motivation, and... Read More

SPaMCAST 758 – Tribal Knowledge, Team Playbooks, A Conversation With Jeffrey Miller

Jeffrey Miller and I have been trying to coordinate a time for an interview on the topics of tribal knowledge and team playbooks since August 2022. We finally solved that... Read More

Team Topologies, Re-read Saturday, Week 9, Chapter 7, Team Interaction Modes

Part 3 of Team Topologies: Organizing Business And Technology Teams For Fast Flow,  integrates team interactions with the team topologies. In Chapter 7, Team Interaction Modes, the authors define three... Read More

Privilege and Fatalism

I have been considering the relationship between privilege and fatalism. Boiling down the impact of privilege into a few words, we find advantage and the potential for power. Whether it... Read More

SPaMCAST 757 – Intermittent Collaboration, Kanban For One, Essays and Conversations

A funny thing happened on the way to SPaMCAST 757. I was considering critical thinking when I ran into data that challenged a common agile belief – enter critical thinking.... Read More

Team Topologies, Re-read Saturday, Week 7, Chapter 6, Choose Team-First Boundaries

The boundaries of teams are shaped by a huge number of pressures ranging from corporate politics and specialism to architectural structure. Inspecting the majority of team boundaries it would seem... Read More

A Few Approaches For Combatting Fatalism In Organizational Change

Some of the most celebrated stories in business literature are where people did not accept the rules or others believed that they were not empowered to act and acted. One... Read More

SPaMCAST 756 – Change Myths, A Conversation With Paul Gibbons

SPaMCAST 756 welcomes back Paul Gibbons. In this visit, we discuss his new book Change Myths: The Professional’s Guide to Separating Sense from Nonsense which he co-authored with Tricia Kennedy.... Read More

Fatalstism in Change

A few weeks ago a colleague and I were discussing why a team never had anything to show during the demo part of their sprint review. The team works on... Read More