Leadership

People Who Don’t Believe in Estimations are Not Humans

As I began writing this post, I'm wondering if the title is a bit too much. However the more I think of it its still rings true. I decided to write about this as I kept hearing for many years ...

Pay it Forward, Let Your Development Team Invest on Self Improvements and System Improvements

In a fast moving business world these days, sometimes it can be difficult to remember that a development team may sometime need to be "off the tools". Lots and lots of people in leadership positions ...

Is Your Prime Directives Matching with What You Do?

We humans are governed by our prime directives. I call them that, but they are also known as the primary values that are directing us from what we do or not. Having these values means that not all ...

Change Your Core Behaviour Driver Using Infinite Loop Questioning

Have you ever wondered why you always come to a certain state? Have you ever wanted to change a habit, but you don't really know what to change? Today I will share with you a technique that I know ...

Scrum Master is the Master Unblocker

The most common perception about the role of the scrum master is that he/she is the one to unblock every blockers or impediments that the team may encounter. This is especially true for a lot of ...

Leaders, Pay Attention at Your Mental Capacity

Leaders are energy suppliers. I don't mean selling electricity, rather a supplier of mental energy for the team that they are leading. This aspect is something that a lot of people forget, especially ...

Reduce Unfinished Meetings

Ever wondered why sometimes you have so many meetings and so many of them felt like "Deja Vu"? Sometimes you wondered into the meeting room and ended up thinking or talking to your self saying ...

Grounded Leaders are Great

This concept of grounded leaders is something that I loosely took away from Professor Mintzberg's session at the LAST Conference 2018 in Melbourne (it was an awesome conference by the way). I think ...