Tag: Business Agility

  • Agile Negotiations — Life Is a Negotiation; Why Would Scrum Be Different?

    TL; DR: Life Is a Negotiation; Why Would Scrum Be Different?

    Life is a negotiation; why would Scrum be different, particularly given its egalitarian nature? As you may recall, no one on a Scrum team can tell anyone else what to do, how to do it, or when to do it. Instead, solving your customers’ problems in a complex environment requires communication skills, empathy, patience, diplomacy, and professionalism. So let’s have a look at some typical agile negotiation scenarios.

    Agile Negotiations — Life Is a Negotiation; Why Would Scrum Be Different? Berlin-Product-People.com

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  • Self-Management: The Top Ten Business Reasons to Trust Your Teams

    TL; DR: Self-Management

    Is self-management an essential building block on an organization’s path to business agility or a nice-to-have cultural twist to, for example, keep teams happy and attract new talent?

    While many people, particularly at the management level, are skeptical about the concept, I am convinced that organizations need to descale and regroup around aligned, autonomous, self-managing teams in a complex environment. Ultimately, only the people closest to the customers’ problems can solve those within the given constraints while contributing to an organization’s sustainability.

    Please continue reading and delve into the reasons that support self-management.

    Self-Management: The Top Ten Business Reasons to Trust Your Teams on Your Path to Business Agility — Berlin-Product-People.com

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