People and teams
Managing people isn’t easy thing whatever process you use. With Agile processes putting explicit emphasis on people and interactions it is even more important. Here is a list of essays and articles you may find useful for managing people in the agile realities.
This list is dynamic and is updated frequently.
Team dynamics, individuals and interactions
- Nurturing the self-organizing team – What to do if self-organization doesn’t seem to happen
- "Is everything OK for you?" - the question you should never ask your developers – Advice for team leaders
- Are you assigning your top engineers to projects? – How to make sure your best people make the right impact
- To Motivate or Not to Demotivate – How to formalize the motivation
- Don't bring me solutions, bring me problems – Fostering creativity
- Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last – What it means to be a professional
- You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss, But It Helps... – The role of manager
- No time for reflection? Try a 5 minute retrospective – Quick way to learn on your experience
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “team” tag
Facing customer
- Customer Team Member - a way to winning together – Value of having the customer on the team
- Scrum customer management: not participating customer – What to do if your customer isn’t as cooperative as you’d like
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “customer” tag
Work in the distributed environment
- How to Survive Multi-Continent Daily Scrums – Tips for running the distributed daily meetings
- Distributed Development: How important is face-to-face interaction? – India-based experience
- Distributed Agile Development - 2: Managing daily Scrums – Tips for running the distributed daily meetings
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “distributed” tag
Adoption
- Start with Trust, Start with a Retrospective – Where to start on a troubled project
- My First Agile Project – A series of posts capturing the details of the first Agile project of the team
- Agile adoption: Why isn't this stuff working? – Possible reasons of the adoption failure
Also have a look at the other articles tagged with the “adoption” tag
Roles
- Product Manager VS. Scrum Product Owner – The difference and similarities
- Product Manager and Scrum Product Owner – Continuation
- Why Scrum Product Owner is a Hard Job
- Product Owner Responsibilities
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