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Q&A on the Book Managing the Unmanageable

The book Managing the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty provides rules, tools, and insights to manage programmers and teams. It explores how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.

Ben Linders Mickey Mantle Ron Lichty
on Feb 07, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace

The book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace by Shailesh Shivakumar explains what employee experience platforms (EXP) are and how digital technologies can be used to improve employee productivity, increase employee engagement, and support collaboration.

Ben Linders Shailesh Kumar
on Jan 20, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Host Leadership Field Book

The Host Leadership Field Book: Building Engagement for Performance and Results provides 30 cases and experiences from people who are applying host leadership in different settings. The book emerged from the 2019 Host Leadership Gathering, and was edited by Mark McKergow and Pierluigi Pugliese.

Mark McKergow Pierluigi Pugliese Ben Linders
on Jan 09, 2020
Culture & Methods

A Transformation Journey for a Distributed Development Organization

Agile transformations are never easy, but are even more challenging than usual when it comes to geographically distributed teams. This article highlights experiences from Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub program and shares the methods that helped them on their journey. It's about the organization, processes, but most importantly, about the people and the mindset.

Burak Ilter
on Dec 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

Dr Timothy Clark has published the book The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety in which he explores how psychological safety is enabled in groups and how they progress through the four stages of inclusion safety, learner safety, contributor safety and challenger safety and why achieving challenger safety is so important for creativity and innovation

Timothy R Clark Shane Hastie
on Dec 04, 2019
Development

Book Review: A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity

A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity educates readers about how to prevent a crisis and/or take leadership when one occurs. With a focus on clear communication, the book provides details, examples, and guidance of mapping security against what a business actually does. The book describes ways to align security with the motivation of others who may be security-agnostic against their own goals.

Erik Costlow
on Nov 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Change-Friendly Leadership

Friendliness is the core denominator for active and willful participation of people when being affected by change, according to Rodger Dean Duncan. In his book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP, he explores how to effectively lead and manage change, transition, and implementation issues in organizations.

Ben Linders Rodger Dean Duncan
on Nov 07, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Thinking Remote

The book Thinking Remote - inspiration for leaders and distributed teams by Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss provides lots of ideas for managers and leaders who are working with remote or distributed teams. It can be used as a handbook for leaders of virtual teams, helping them to deal with the leadership challenges and making the transition to remote working.

Ben Linders Pilar Orti Maya Middlemiss
on Oct 28, 2019
Culture & Methods

Psychological Safety: Models and Experiences

This paper discusses psychological safety that refers to a climate in which people are comfortable being (and expressing) themselves. A proposed model (called S.A.F.E.T.Y.) is discussed briefly, and the article proposes a path to how we can use this model in agile adoptions related to teams and organizations.

Fabio Armani Giulia Armani
on Oct 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Appreciation at Work

As organizations across the world are experimenting better ways to sustain their employees’ engagement, appreciation and recognition programs have flourished in the last five years, among the best, if not the best, tool of predilection for making employees feel valued. Appreciation benefits are not limited to companies’ performance; they also benefit individuals and teams.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Sep 04, 2019
Culture & Methods

Balancing Generalists and Specialists– Building Successful Agile Teams

Dave West of scrum.org discusses building successful agile teams, by exploring the concept of generalist vs. specialist team members, taking a look at technical skills and the balance of those skills, along with the job titles of those team members.

Dave West
on Aug 16, 2019
Culture & Methods

Empathy is a Technical Skill

Empathy, like software, is a deeply technical topic that can challenge you in the best way while making your life richer and more rewarding. This article explores how an empathy-focused approach to software development can help pay down technical debt, increase automated test coverage, build trust among team members, and contribute to the overall health of a software system.

Andrea Goulet
on Aug 13, 2019