Cross Functional Teams with typical managers might hurt and destroy teams and companies. The solution is to train managers to become agile managers
Cross functional team is not enough
Cross functional team In my previous blog post, I explained how cross-functional teams are not enough to create high performing organisations. Cross-functional teams are mandatory, but not a guarantee of, success. I explained that several organizations have cross-functional teams built around a matrix organization. The blog post explains quite well how this matrix setup can […]
Organisational structure: Matrix Organisation harms your company
Organisational structure is something extremely important for the success of a company. In this post I will explain how Matrix organisations hurt companies.
Sick and tired of Agile estimation
Agile Estimation During this last week, I finally had the opportunity to read a book that was on my reading list for long time: Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The book is about uncertainty and unexpected events. NNT (as the author calls himself) explains that we live in an extremely complex world where we […]
Anti Pattern - Change Scrum Master often
Changing the Scrum Master role within the team is something that I hear time to time. Fortunately not that often. The defenders of this theory claim this is beneficial for the team and for the different team members. They think if people change the role of Scrum Master all team can understand what are the […]
SMART objectives are DUMB objectives!!!
Smart Objectives Some weeks ago, I spent a full day in a workshop where I was forced to define SMART objectives for a big program. Now, being a survivor of the aforementioned practice, I can affirm that SMART objectives are a dumb way to work. Before you leap to correct me, let me explain my […]
Is the Project scope realistic?
Project Scope Project scope is an interesting topic. During last several weeks, I have been involved in planning the release of our new product. This post explains the way I worked with the C level, and how I helped them to understand whether the project scope was realistic. I also explain how we executed the […]
Rewards may destroy improvement efforts in our companies
In the book, Punished Rewards, Alfie Kohn states, “Rewards do not require any attention to the reasons that the trouble developed in the first place.” He explains how rewards ignore the root cause of the problems. In general, we believe rewards will get others to do what we want. As parents, if our child is […]
How monetary rewards destroy your Minimum Viable Product
Goals and objectives People that follow my work know how passionate I am about topics such as performance appraisals, along with the myriad goals and objectives attached to the performance of a person. If you want to review my previous work just click here. This blog post will be fully dedicated to how goals and […]
Rewards are a great way to Punish people
Alfie Kohn, in his book Punished by Rewards, explains to us that rewards and punishments are two sides of the same coin; they are not opposites at all, and in fact have a strong kinship between them. Another author—Kurt Lewin—in his book “A dynamic Theory of Personality“, goes even further. He says that rewards and […]
