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Happy Teams – a guest post by Alex Kjerulf
Alex Kjerulf is the Chief Happiness Officer. We met Alex when he was in Cape Town a couple of months ago. He is indeed VERY happy and full of energy. He speaks all around the world spreading his ideas...
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Agile Performance Reviews
I gave a talk on Agile Performance Reviews at the South African Scrum Gathering. You can find my slides here: Agile Performance Appraisals: SGZA13 Talk from Growing Agile I also blogged about my idea...
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Why measuring productivity is bad for business
I recently attended Dan North’s Accelerate Agile course. One of the things he talked about was why measuring productivity is such a terrible idea in software. Although I’ve always known this in my gut,...
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Agile Manager? What does that mean?
A tweet yesterday by a client got me to write this post. Here is Maritza’s tweet and a few others we shared. Over the last few years the term Agile Manager has become quite popular. My fear was that...
View ArticleMy agile performance appraisal talk – what I didn’t say…
After I received the feedback on my Agile 2014 talk on Performance Appraisals without a number, I realised the talk missed the mark for some people. At first I blamed the attendees who obviously didn’t...
View ArticleA Coaching Experiment
This month Karen and I were lucky enough to have 2 unplanned sessions with a group of other coaches. It was so great to talk to fellow coaches about what’s working, what isn’t, to hear their war...
View Article7 tips for being an Agile Manager
We recently gave a talk at the ITWeb Software Developme […]
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The Four Day Work Week
About a year ago, we made a fairly major decision at Growing Agile. We realised we were too busy, so we decided to work less. We committed to only working 4 days a week. The idea was we would take...
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3 Key Skills for Servant Leaders
Servant Leadership is a big buzzword these days. Everyone knows Scrum Masters and agile managers need to be servant leaders, but often it’s difficult to describe what that means, and what skills you...
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