A non-profit I work with needed to pack up its office and move to its new office. Most of the people packing would be volunteers, and we needed to make a way for them to easily see what needed to be done, select something to do, and feel useful and helpful quickly. So… I set up a Kanban board!
In my last post, I described an improv theater game you can use to increase your team’s social sensitivity. Here’s way you can vary this game if you have one person who has a disproportionately negative effect on the team, to see how their actions alone can affect the entire team…
Do you want to help your team learn to work together more effectively, and have fun at the same time? Have them play “Friend and Foe.” It’s easy — you just need a space big enough to move around in, and one simple rule…
If you’re a Scrum Master, and you have one person on your team who’s causing trouble for the rest of the team, should the person be removed from the team? Actually, the first thing you should think about is whether it’s really one team member who’s causing trouble for the rest of the team, or whether something else is going on…
Have you ever been on a team that’s had problems getting along and working well together? Here are three secrets from a mediator, to surviving and thriving on self-organizing teams: 1) be patient, 2) accept ambiguity, 3) Solve interpersonal problems incrementally…
I had a great experience of self-organizing teams at a service weekend I went to for the summer camp I went to when growing up. So that means that what worked there will work for all self-organizing teams, right? Of course not. Here’s why…