In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we tackle the topic of virtual teams and their management. Like any team, virtual teams are groups of individuals with shared objectives and shared responsibilities. Unlike traditional or colocated teams, though, virtual teams draw members from multiple locations and thus cannot easily meet face-to-face.
What I have found over the years of deploying Agile is that organizations forget one of the fundamental reason why they deploy Agile practices: you want your scrum teams to mature as a team and as they mature you should expect that the level of quality in the software delivered will be higher than it used to be.
Organizations are under the constant threat of disaster and must implement an effective business continuity plan (BCP) that includes pre-incident preparation, analysis, mitigation, and recovery.
Just like excellent poker playing, deciding how and whether to act in an innovative effort requires both fast and slow systems of thinking. You need slow thinking to update your current beliefs with recent learning and then use fast thinking to act based on your experience and intuition. This Advisor explores some examples of fast and slow thinking in today’s organizations.
Software development today is heavily influenced by large companies with a desire for a global presence. Growth happens through mergers and acquisitions and new development in emerging markets.
Back in late November 2009, I was conducting a group coaching session and the topic was how to keep staff motivated when, because the economy was so bad, the participants were unable to provide an elaborate party, gifts, or bonuses by end of year.