As an Agile Coach one of the biggest frustrations for me is when people either won’t try something I’m suggesting, or they try it but don’t seem to be able to get the point of it, or actively try to sabotage it. How many times have I heard, “Well, we tried that and it didn’t work.” […]
As I mentioned in a previous post, Agile was started by a widespread group of individuals who saw the way things were and weren’t working and began to creatively break the rules to get better results. Of course, Agile has grown in the decades since. It’s started to resemble a detailed set of rules for […]
If you are a scrum master or team coach, you’ve probably felt the frustration of laying out a sound set of Agile practices only to find team members lack your enthusiasm for diving in. With some people, it’s overt – questioning, challenging, complaining about the time spent planning vs coding; in others it’s more subtle […]
Read More… from Overcoming Resistance the Integral Way – Team level
Crossing the threshold of agility I remember the first time I experienced a team crossing that subtle threshold of discovering the power of working together as a group, with transparency and trust, rather than a collection of individuals working alone on a common project. I recall the energy that was unlocked as people gradually let […]