Trust and Collaboration: What’s a Manager To Do?
Effective collaboration within teams is a cornerstone of success in any organization. We delve into the significance of trust and testing in team dynamics.
Helping Teams Perform: Resolving Conflict with Workflows
Helping Teams Perform:Resolving Conflict with Workflows Helping Teams Perform:Resolving Conflictwith Workflows “You’re just getting this to me now? I have a hundred other things to do today,” was shouted down the hall, coming from the CEO’s office. The reaction was to an email request from our Marketing Director, to review several articles slated to go […]
Don’t Pass on the Gravy
Don’t Pass on the Gravy The development team was sent to the southwestern part of Rhode Island to kick off a project with a new client. New to the team myself, this was my first kick-off event where I would take the lead for the project’s duration. If you’ve been in one of these meetings, […]
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part III
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part III Let’s do a deep dive To recap, here are the Marketing Team’s average monthly deliverables by category during the trial: And here are the Team’s performance metrics before and after the trial: Outcomes Here are the percent-changes for each area the Team measured before and after […]
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part II
Previously… The Hunch As with any team, the Marketing team had their share of challenges. They decided one way to mitigate some of the pain-points they were experiencing was to conduct a trial run of sprints; where by identifying and coordinating work ahead of time, they would measurably improve their individual and overall performance. Analysis […]
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part I The Hunch By identifying and coordinating deliverables ahead of time, the Marketing team will improve their individual and overall performance while increasing job satisfaction. In Theory The Marketing team typically takes on work as it comes; requests from either outside contributors or the executive team. At […]
Agile Practices: Team Sprints
Internal Services ProcessesBy using a combination of project and process management methodologies, groups can improve the quality of communication with their internal customers while decreasing cycle-time and increasing individual and overall throughput. In PracticeSince 2019, the Production Team has been identifying and grouping their work using an Agile Scrum board. Recently, the team made a […]