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Category Archives: Mentoring
5 Levels of Leadership
I came across a great article and followed up by listening on Utube to John C. Maxwell about the 5 levels of leadership. Really, liked all he has to say on this topic.
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Switching to working virtually…
It’s been about a month and half nearly two months now of working completely virtual and staying away from the office due to Covid19. There were some initial bumps, such as, dropped vpn connections or capacity overload home wifi connectivity issues missing having two monitors issues with team collaboration tools missed meeting by team members […]
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Coaching Technical Teams
Coaching is a very important part of a manager/leader’s role, as it affects the morale, productivity and long term success of the team. Coaching simply involves, Empowering teams to tackle problems and come up with solutions on their own Encouraging risk taking and learning from their mistakes. Providing skills training and mentoring individuals to develop […]
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Team Goals
Goals built around a common purpose help teams become more cohesive and collaborative. Goal setting can be challenging, both in terms of identifying and then marking progress. I generally start the year, by bringing the team together for a team meeting to, set collective team goals, by first, Reviewing the company goals for the year […]
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Top 4 leadership qualities
A good leader is someone with a vision, who is passionate about that vision and has the courage and commitment to bring that vision to fruition. Here are four characteristics that leaders have, Ability to Inspire A good leader needs to able to get others to see the vision and follow it so the vision […]
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Fun at work
Having some fun at work is important. Even as teams work late nights to make deadlines or try to achieve the different organization and personal goals, it is important that they pause for some rest and relaxation. This builds team camaraderie, reduces stress and ultimately does improve productivity and employee retention. We have had various […]
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Managing teams
Scrum teams are supposed to be self-managing and course correct as needed based on what is learnt from sprint retrospectives. The two leadership roles in scrum are those of the product owner who defines the work to which the team commits and you have the scrum master who mentors and coaches the team into becoming […]
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Completing stories…
As a scrum team, the intent is to complete all stories that are planned and committed for a sprint. The reality is though that not everything will get done for all kinds of reasons, to name a few, incorrect estimates, where in something turned to be a lot bigger than anticipated. Perhaps the stories were […]
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Agile Team leadership
Each Agile team has it’s own unique challenges, and it changes as the team evolves. One of our challenges to functioning as a cohesive coding team, has been the relative differences in coding skill levels between various team members. After observing and talking to the team, it occurs to me, the following measures in upcoming […]
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Scrum Master
So I’ve been tapped to be Scrum Master/Team Manager for a newly formed scrum team. We are moving from Waterfall to Agile, so it is a big change for most of the developers here. There is both skepticism and trepidation on what the change will be mean. Scrum is an agile way to manage a […]
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