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 […]
Goals and Objectives attached to monetary rewards destroy your MVP!!!
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 objectives attached to […]
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 […]
Nightmare - Central teams consisting of coaches
Some weeks ago I engaged in a nice conversation with Stephen Parry and Tonianne DeMaria Barry about coaches and how they could harm the organization. They came up with an interesting perspective. In their opinion, central teams consisting of coaches are quite harmful for the organization. Stephen defends they (coaches) will perpetuate themselves making everyone […]
Is your team self organized?
During last week, I had the opportunity to attend one of our CoPs (community of practises) meetings at my company. This CoPs was dedicated to Scrum Masters and since we have many new scrum masters, the focus of the meeting was on a following topic: “What means to be a good Scrum Master, its roles […]
Get Rid of Measures!
Hi guys, Now that I was able to get your attention I must say I believe in measures, do not worry :) I think they are useful but not the way they are used in most of the companies. Typical measures are used to command and control, we must shift this towards an approach where […]
Create a Knowledge Transfer Culture or you will die!!!
Hi guys, during last two weeks I had an opportunity to catch up with a friend who works as Agile Coach. During last summer, his company had serious issues with knowledge transfer that almost forced them to close doors. In this blog, I will explain why is it so important to have a culture that […]
Sharing knowledge within your organization
Hi guys, for some time I have been thinking about writing a series of blogs about knowledge shared within an organisation. As an Agile Coach, one of my roles is to help companies define a strategy to support a knowledge sharing. In this blog post, I put together several different posts about knowledge sharing techniques. […]
Study Groups - Communities of Practice
Hi guys, in this post I just want to present a really simple idea how you can share knowledge within your team/organization. This activity is called “Book and Coffee Break Study Group”. How many of us read books on our free time and want to share the content of the books with other people but this actually never happened?
Get rid of Managers!!!
Hi guys, this blog post is the result of a chat that I had with a friend of mine today. He called me asking for an advice about team leaders within scrum teams. Right after we booked a dinner, I understood that this is a very interesting topic that cannot be discussed over the phone […]