The 5 Whys
Recently, while researching another topic for another blog post, I came across the concept of the 5 Whys. Essentially, this is a technique that is extremely useful in identifying the root cause of
Retrospectives: Final Words
At the end of each retrospective, your team will probably feel inspired as they may now have a clearer understanding of the issues at hand or because they know that changes that are
Retrospectives: Facilitating
One of the things that will contribute to the success of the retrospective is the facilitator and how they go about doing the retrospective. In an ideal world, this person should be a
Retrospectives: The Basics
In the previous post we looked at why retrospectives can be valuable to an organization. Essentially, no one knows the full story and each person has their own part to tell. In using
Retrospectives: Planning
Continuing on from the current theme of running a useful and beneficial retrospective, today I would like to focus on preparing for a retrospective. At first you may dismiss this as being something
Retrospectives: The Frustration
Most people these days are running in some sort of agile methodology where you have frequent planning sessions, releases and retrospectives. Personally, I quite like this methodology as it provides a tight feedback
Working With Difficult People
I was recently thinking to myself about some of the things that make up a successful team. I was doing a comparison of two teams that I know of and I realized that
Lessons Learnt So Far...
It's been a few months since I have taken on the challenge of being a team lead for one of the projects at my current client. I have learnt a lot
Good to Great: The Flywheel & Doomloop
This is the last blog in a series which covers Jim Collins book Good to Great, I would like to go over the concept of the Flywheel and the Doomloop, so lets just
Good to Great: Technology Accelerators
In this blog post I would like to go over the ways in which great companies approached technology differently from their good counterparts. Interestingly, the great companies were able to sift out the
Good to Great: A Culture of Discipline
In this section of his book, Jim Collins focuses around the discipline of an organization. You can only form a disciplined foundation if you have the right people on the bus, who are
Good to Great: The Hedgehog Concept
In continuing with the current theme of Good to Great, I would now like to explore the idea that Jim Collin's put forth which he dubbed the Hedgehog Concept. What Is