Posts tagged with: Teams

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 755 – Engagement, Hierarchy, and Fatalism, Making Mistakes, Essays and Conversations

SPaMCAST 755 features an essay on the relationship between engagement, hierarchy, and fatalism based on a discussion of the topic between the SPaMCAST Columnists. The ideas of hierarchy, engagement, and... Read More

SPaMCAST 744 – Team, Low Code, A Conversation With Nikhil Nandagopal

This week Nikhil Nandagopal and I talked about building teams. Teams are the heart and soul of software development in all of its many aspects. Nikhil provides pragmatic advice for... Read More

SPaMCAST 665 – Organization Culture Drives Teams, Decisions at Last Responsible Moment, Essays and Conversations

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 665 features our essay on the organizational aspects that impact teams. Teams don’t live in a vacuum, so when the word organization gets used... Read More

Teams: Behavioral Attributes

The second category of attributes that are important for teams to be effective is behavioral attributes. These attributes describe how individuals and teams as a whole act. While the first... Read More

SPaMCAST 644 – Teams Are Important, Static and Dynamic Testing, Essays and Discussions

In the SPaMCAST 644, we talk teams. At the core of agile is the belief that the team is the fundamental building block of work. Because they are so important,... Read More

Collaboration Fails

Collaboration is not easy. If we start with the premise that collaboration is important, even critical, why does it often fail to emerge or wither on the vine? This is... Read More

Collaboration

I recently interviewed several successful technical entrepreneurs. Most have created multiple successful organizations. They have shared several common threads. One of the most basic of those threads is the need... Read More
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