Decks
We put a lot of emphasis on being Renaissance workers, able to step comfortably from one job role to the next. But, as Mitch Lacey describes here, not all roles play nicely with each other, and trying to combine them may lead to disaster.
Updated March 2012: The role of the manager in a software company is changing. No longer is it about driving people to achieve results. Now it is about enabling teams to be hyper-productive.
The team, running Scrum by-the-book for three months, was continually failing to meet its delivery dates. As a result, trust between the business managers and the team degraded almost to a point-of-no-return.
With the rising popularity and success of Agile methods in technology circles, many organizations have attempted to
transition their development processes to a leaner, more customer focused development model
Can adding a team member take down an entire project? It can. Watch this video to hear a story of a project I ran that was almost killed due to team dysfunction.
