Category: Organisational Culture

  • Team velocity [3] – the entry points

    Team velocity [3] – the entry points

    Teams are for the members what are highways for the cars. It makes no sense to have highways unless there are cars to use it. There are different types of cars, different age and different journeys to take on the highway. There are as well different types of human beings,…

  • Team velocity

    `First time I heard about team velocity has been when I read some things on Agile development. There are various descriptions of the team velocity in Agile and I invite you to read this one. I said this is a great descriptor of the team performance and I should introduce…

  • Programatorii adopta culturi organizationale mai greu decat cei din alte meserii?

    August 2011:Programatorii adopta culturi organizationale mai greu decat cei din alte meserii?Sunt artisti sau ingineri?Ii putem asimila arhitectilor sau inginerilor constructori? Intrebari. Raspunde cineva? Ianuarie 2012:Nu a raspuns nimeni. Concluziile mele sunt ca o cultura organizationala se adopta cu atat mai greu cu cat creativitatea echipei este mai crescuta. Ca…

  • The highway to success

    The highway to success

    Teams are built in various environments. These environment matters as long as you build a project team. But you can control how the team integrates in the environment. I will speak about some items that are important in order to keep a certain group working like a team. Team have…

  • Sports in business management

    Sports in business management

    As I wrote some days ago, I had the pleasure to meet my former handball coach during a business event. He was invited to speak about sports, about the management of the handball teams he managed during last 20 years, leadership and so on. This has been organized like a…

  • Democracy in software engineering?

    Article first published as Software is Democratic on Technorati. Maybe you have read “Funky Business“. Two Swedish professors, Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordström, are writing about how information open more opportunities for less developed countries. Internet access is cheap, the need for application is great and the offer is high.…

  • Pipelines (Conductele)

    Cat de lungi sau scurte sunt ciclurile de viata ale unei echipe? Cum este legat ciclul de viata al unui produs de ciclul de viata al unei echipe? Cand trebuie reinventata echipa si cand trebuie reinventat produsul? Nimeni nu poate prevedea cu exactitate ciclul de viata al unei echipe. Cele…

  • Din nou despre sport si echipe

    Din nou despre sport si echipe

    Talent. & Echipa. & Stiluri de joc. & Motivatie. = REZULTATE. Din nou, o postare in formatul caracteristic. Nu poti sa disconsideri, in orice afacere te-ai afla, influenta majora a talentului in rezultatele unei echipe. Am auzit si chiar am aplicat, din pacate, formule simpliste in care un om poate…