Moving People
The time has come: you’re asked to move somebody to another team to help out on another mission-critical project. But how can you “choose” somebody and look into the eyes of the rest of your team members?
Career Development (Part 2)
In the first part, we covered the depths of helping individual contributors understand their professional and personal development paths. It’s now (at least somewhat) clear, and it’s time to kick off the whole “development” journey.
Surviving Through The Worst Crisis - War
Like everybody, I’m watching and following the stream of news about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with total horror. Since I have team members from all across the world, including Ukraine, I’d like to share a few thoughts on what we...
Career Development (Part 1)
Once in the leadership position, it’s just a matter of time when you will have to address the needs of career growth of your team. This is probably something worth writing a book about, but let us try to go...
Power of Retrospectives
There are always at least some meetings in the team’s life. Daily, planning, sprint/work review, or simply one of the many group work sessions. If I’d have to choose one as the most important, that would be the retrospective. Why?...