It’s common for a newly formed agile team to find it unnatural that they could be self directing. “What do you mean we decide the right path?” Creating a team of leaders means empowering the team to have a little more autonomy without a manager dictating their every task. The Ant Colony Ants don’t have a central […]
Category: Agile Software Development
Motivating developers to increase ROI
Imagine developers being force fed a consistent sense of urgency and anxiety aimed to persuade them to work harder, longer hours and produce more, more, more. All this to benefit a profit fixated corporation which is obsessively refocusing itself to the bottom line. The consequence is a team of unsatisfied developers followed by high turnover and a related cost of rehiring, […]
The manager’s role in Agile software development
The roles of a software development manager are numerous and too complex to explain in one post. However, there are two key roles in the waterfall model that are very visible in the organization and are missing in Agile. Managers create technical solutions for projects and direct the work of the team. Contrarily, Agile software development teams […]
New agile retrospective activity: Clarity
Before one of my scrum master meetings, I was tasked to bring a new retrospective to the team. So I looked at the 4 key questions that a retrospective should answer.[1] What did we do well, that if we don’t discuss we might forget? What did we learn? What should we do differently next time? […]