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Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 4 ..




This is a series of posts (Previous post about a hard pushing manager) that I am writing about the morale issues we faced in a team that increased its productivity levels over a period of months, making it one of the most productive teams in the company. However, the issue was about whether we reached [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 3 ..




This is a series of posts that I am writing about the dynamics of a team, and how it came to be that we started getting push back from the team about pushing them too hard, which lead to a series of introspective discussions (Pushing the team too hard) about whether we had gone too [...]



Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – Dealing with a team that was hesitant, and it worked only after people actually were changed




If you look at the title of this post, it does not mean that we convinced the people to change; it actually meant that in some cases, people were encouraged to leave for a different group, or when they decided to leave the company, they were not stopped. This seems rather drastic, but it turned [...]



Scrum Problems: When external stakeholders intervene frequently in the Scrum meetings




In any Scrum process, the stakeholders are typically separated into being either Chicken or Pigs. This phrase refers to the fact that if you consider a chicken and a pig opening a restaurant called ‘Eggs and Ham’, the chicken just has to contribute eggs on a regular basis, without apparent harm; however, the pig has [...]