Archive for 'Teams'

Conflict, Diversity & Appreciation

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Michael Spayd.

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My friend Jean Tabaka recently posted what may become a seminal blog (who knows, eh?) on a process of escalating conflict she sees within the Agile community (Escalation is Killing Agile). It soon made the Twitter rounds and then ignited a storm of comments, including some that seemed to actually illustrate Jean’s point. My primary [...]

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Teams are the next new thing (no, seriously)

Posted on 15. Aug, 2009 by Michael Spayd.

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Jane Patterson, one of my partners, and I have come to a suprising realization: teams are the next new thing! Well, that’s a little misleading.  What we mean is that the use of what I call ‘conscious teaming’ as a discipline has similiar potential to the Agile, Lean or Quality movements. If applied with the same [...]

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