Author: Annelies De Meyere
Co-Learning supports De Warmste Week
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, again. Dusk is earlier than usual so we get to sit by the fire and spend time with family, watching a movie, playing a boardgame, having some food with sparkly wine, buying presents, and planning for parties. With this time of the year comes the traditional “De Warmste Week”. A splendid initiative of the Belgian radio station...
Is it Sales or your Product Strategy that isn’t great?
Is it Sales or your Product Strategy that isn’t great? You hear things like “sales is just selling anything as long as they get their bonus”, “we have to comply to everything sold and have no say in it” within many product development departments. The other way around from within sales departments comes the remark “they never deliver what has been promised”, “we can’t trust...
Estimating a backlog of 100 items in 1 hour? Challenge accepted.
The situation The agile team was working in a still mostly project-based environment. Over the period of several months, they had created backlog items, both with nice business value and also items to get rid of some technical debt they had piled up, getting to a situation where they had about 125 backlog items, of which only a dozen were estimated and refined, ready for...
Delegation: the boundaries of self-organisation
We've all heard the stories, or even lived them: a company moves towards self-organising team structures, and there you go, the team should self-organise! What you usually see is that the teams either freeze or go wild, with a sad manager observing the train wreck, complaining they are not allowed to interfere or saying things like: "See! I knew we shouldn't have given them all...
Tastier and healthier than the feedback sandwich: the feedback wrap!
By now most organisations are moving away from the most classical versions of performance reviews. The yearly or bi-yearly reviews are being replaced by regular one-on-one meetings with employees and managers, or teams become more self-organised and do peer reviewing throughout the year. Phew. But how do we actually tackle these moments and get feedback across? Positive feedback Giving positive feedback comes easy to us....