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The Challenges in Integrating Cross-Boundary Teams

Cross-boundary teams are the hub of innovation. However, creating and nurturing a cross-functional team for innovation is a challenging task. It needs a deep understanding of the nature of knowledge, diversity and interactions within a team. Managers and team leaders can infer valuable information from a deeper understanding of the contextual and knowledge level challenges in such teams.

Premjith Purushotham
on Aug 07, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Virtual Leadership

The book Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams by Penny Pullan provides suggestions and practices for people working in or with virtual teams. It discusses leadership styles suitable for virtual or remote teams and explores what can be done to improve collaboration and communication, and engage remote participants.

Penny Pullan Ben Linders
on Jul 20, 2019
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A: from Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams

Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby have written a book titled From Chaos to Successful Distributed Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. The book provides advice for anyone working in or with a distributed team on how to overcome the common (and some uncommon) challenges that distribution and distance bring to effective team collaboration.

Johanna Rothman Mark Kilby Shane Hastie
on Jul 11, 2019
Culture & Methods

How to Effectively Lead Remote IT teams

When you build your software product or implement a digital platform, there are many things you need to consider – like product design, technology stack, architecture, etc. . And many times we forget, that at the end the most crucial part is the team that will work together to deliver it.

Todor Gigilev
on Jul 05, 2019
Culture & Methods

How Developers Can Learn the Language of Business Stakeholders

This article explores how business stakeholders and developers can improve their collaboration and communication by learning each other's language and dictionaries. It explores areas where there can be the most tension: talking about impediments and blockers, individual and team learning, real options, and risk management.

Anna Radzikowska
on Jul 04, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Empathy at Work

The book Empathy at Work by Sharon Steed explores the role empathy plays in team communication and interaction, and provides tools to help people become better empaths in difficult situations. It describes the steps we can take in order to show empathy daily and contribute to a healthy, collaborative, positive work culture.

Ben Linders Sharon Steed
on Jun 26, 2019
Culture & Methods

Maybe Agile Is the Problem

“Agile” now means anything, everything, and nothing. Many organizations are Agile fatigued, and the “Agile Industrial Complex” is part of the problem. Agilists must go back to the basics and simplicity of the Manifesto and 12 Principles. The Heart of Agile and Modern Agile are examples of basic, simple frameworks. Agilists also have much to learn from social sciences.

Mo Hagar
on Jun 13, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Mastering Collaboration

The book Mastering Collaboration by Gretchen Anderson provides techniques and exercises that can be used to improve collaboration in teams and between teams and their environment. It explores topics like enlisting people, teamworking, trust, and respect, generating ideas collectively, decision making, and transparent communication.

Ben Linders Gretchen Anderson
on Jun 07, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the inside out

The book Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out explains how focusing on inner-agility through sensemaking, communication, and relationship intelligence can increase the outer agility of organizations. It describes Sense-and-Respond leadership, an approach to catalyzing the creation of outcomes by sensing acutely, responding gracefully, and sensing deliberately.

Michael Hamman Ben Linders
on Jun 02, 2019
Culture & Methods

Cultivating a Learning Organisation

This article explores how creating an internal culture of experimentation and learning enabled a company to keep pace with the rapid iterations in tech that have become the regular way we do business. It shows that psychological safety is a key component of the learning organisation; employees need to be able to experiment and learn from any outcome - without fear that failure will be punished.

Andrea Dobson
on May 24, 2019
Architecture & Design

Architecture with 800 of My Closest Friends: The Evolution of Comcast’s Architecture Guild

Comcast has cultivated an Architecture Guild, with the goal of "threading the needle" between obtaining advantageous critical mass around certain common technologies without undermining individual teams' agency. The Architecture Guild is a grassroots framework that has been used to cut across organizational boundaries to identify solid, workable, default recommendations.

Jon Moore
on May 14, 2019
Culture & Methods

People Re-Engineering How To’s: The Magic of Teaming

People Re-engineering is a concept bundling whatever is needed to keep software people fit for their pressing challenges caused by merciless market demands. In one of its five threads, PRE formulates a platform for a more effective and vivid teaming process that enhances team productivity and wellbeing.

Medhat Sabry
on May 11, 2019