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Who All Gets to Be a Leader?

Nathan Magnuson

Leaders take the responsibility to know their strengths and weaknesses and make a personal development plan to increase their growth and thereby their performance – without waiting for someone else to do it for them. Team members are the best places to begin.

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Is “Culture” Just a Buzzword?

Nathan Magnuson

In most cases, the blank is filled with “leadership” or “accountability,” but it can be all sorts of other things too: communication, collaborative, engaging, development-oriented, execution, work-life balance-friendly – you name it. Not many things can top being part of a great team with a great culture.

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Should I Focus on My Strengths or My Weaknesses?

Nathan Magnuson

Many leaders choose to focus their development energy on areas they think (or have been told) are their weak areas. On one hand, our strengths can allow us to perform at peak levels, sometimes without much effort. Neutralize Your Weaknesses. Obviously we all have weaknesses (or areas of “non-strength”).

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AoAD2 Practice: Impediment Removal

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. All words describing issues that can derail team performance.

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35 Fleshed-Out Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers [2020]

Codegiant

Big credits to Stefan Wolper , an agile coach, and his ebook about Scrum Masters. The Scrum Master’s role revolves around helping and guiding the scrum team rather than managing it. One of the Scrum Master’s primary responsibilities is to ensure a distraction-free environment for his team. Put your team on a pedestal.

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The Challenges and Traps of Architecting Sociotechnical Systems

Strategic Tech

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. In another study, Thoughtworks found that, on average, when a piece of work leaves a team (i.e. And there’s more research to back it up.