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Agile Transformation & Adoption: Know Your Baggage and Have a Packing Strategy
The other day, I heard someone say, “He comes to the relationship with a lot of emotional baggage.” Truer words were never spoken; some people come with handbags and others come with steamer trunks,...
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Agile Coaching Tip: The Quiet Power of Silence
I once had a supervisor who was an excellent person, always seeking to create concensus and positive interactions. Mostly this worked out fine but at times his desire for always keeping things positive...
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Innovation Day: Encourage Collaboration and Creativity
One of the learning tools BigVisible offers its clients is an Innovation Day. These 24-hour time boxed events take people outside of the normal day-to-day grind of work and give them an opportunity to...
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Team Collaboration & Headphone Isolation
Imagine you are a ScrumMaster for a good team. It’s your 12th Sprint and for the first time the team is finally all moved into one team room. After weeks of being divided into various parts of the...
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Podcast: Increase IT & Business Collaboration
Find you can’t get the level of business partner collaboration you need for your agile software development teams? Is this limiting your effectiveness? Ever wonder why that might be and what you could...
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Defining and Achieving True Collaboration
The word collaboration is everywhere these days. Talks, meetings, conversations are almost sure to include it. Managers praise the powers of collaboration. People cite “collaborative efforts” and...
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Continuous Improvement: Thoughts On Tuckman and Teams
High-performing team don’t just happen. While the structures of agile frameworks and the principles of the Agile Manifesto help (a lot), the human-interaction component of a team and organization is...
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Seeking Consensus, Not Perfection
“Tell me, I’ll forgetShow me, I’ll rememberInvolve me, I’ll understand”- Confucius When I first started my career as a software developer, I always thought that the truly tough problems were the...
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Quiet Time vs. Interaction Time
A fellow BigVisible coach started an interesting conversation on our internal email lists the other day. He pointed to a post about the idea of “No Talk Thursdays” which referenced this article at...
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Video: Thoughts On Agile Design with Dave Gray and Alan Dayley!
Gamestorming is one of the foundational books on interactive and highly collaborative meetings. Dave Gray, one of the book’s authors, has begun working on a new book titled “Agile Design Principles.”...
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