Team management is a tricky balance between motivation, control, and support. But when you add dispersion to the mix, things get a lot more complicated. Managing virtual teams that rarely meet in person and can span across the globe is an amazing feat of technology and progress, but it still has its challenges. In this post,…
Managing a team is a complicated process that requires you to navigate professional relationships and personal relationships and balance it all with the organization’s goals in mind. That’s why effective team management is so crucial. Not only does it take a special type of person to do the job, but it also takes a special skill…
As with most things, your efforts will be scrambled when you work without intention. Without direction, you can easily get stuck moving in circles. Team management is no different. When handled without direction, intention, goals, and care, a team transforms from a resource into a liability. They could be moving effectively toward your goals or stuck…
We’ve been talking a lot about Agile principles and organizations, but we’ve not discussed the thread that connects it all—the Agile mindset. No matter how your company likes to handle changes, issues, and plain old normal, we could all stand to be more flexible. With social media, the state of technology, and even the state of…
Every single day, we communicate. Unless you are out on the fringes of society, you exchange some kind of a message with someone every day of your life. Even for those on the edge, you’ve probably scared off a bird or two—and that counts. And over the course of our lives, whether your audience is birds…
Sometimes you simply need a faster way to finish work without worrying about preparation or planning. That’s what’s so great about the scrum framework. You can start making real progress toward project and organizational goals, and you don’t have to waste time discussing it. It’s a clean project framework that is about getting things done, but…
Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe Agile is a relatively new practice that was founded to support the use of agile in larger organizations. It’s complicated, has many moving parts, and sometimes the lines are a little fuzzy, but for the organizations that it fits, it’s very worth it. In this post, we are going to explain…
There is an ongoing debate in the management space about the best way to manage a project. Agile vs waterfall are often set to battle so often that bringing them up a sure fire way to start an interesting discussion. Some believe that agile is a fast, reckless, and choppy management system that always results in…
Agile project management has a weird reputation. Some see it as a “magic” solution that suddenly makes all their problems disappear. Some see it as the work of satan that can’t be trusted and will lead to the immediate demise of your company. We think the real answer lies somewhere in the middle. We even think…
Agile stakeholder management can feel a little jarring to your usual project manager. Not only does it move a lot faster than traditional project management, but there is a lot less time spent on planning. Depending on your project, that can be a great thing or something that keeps you up at night. Either way, agile…