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Compliments; Instant productivity improvement for software teams, with a small effort….
0Hello, you project manager/team leader. I expected this title to grasp your attention. Would you like to know how to improve the performance of your team members? This can be done without massive statistics or an expensive performance improvement program. This magic pill is called positive feedback. Just give your team members the credits for their work and compliment them for their achievements.
As a project manager we are aimed on the end result. In our day to day job we are focused on the things that are not yet done and the things that could go wrong. This focus on future result and possible impediments make us forget the past achievements of our team.
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 6: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 6: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
This is the sixth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss the implementation of the 12 principles in real life software engineering. Goals of agility are to go deliver software of higher quality, faster, with a higher acceptance to end-users and able to follow the changing business requirements to strive for competitive advantage.
The question is: is this going to work in practice or is this only based on a nice marketing and sales story.
Principle 6: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
The purpose of conversation/communication is to transfer a message form the sender to the recipient. In projects, conversation is either about the project process (plans, risk, approach etc) or project content (requirements). Getting your team members to understand the right More >
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 5: Build projects around motivated individuals.
Principle 5: Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
This is the fifth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss the implementation of the 12 principles in real life software engineering. Goals of agility are to go deliver software of higher quality, faster, with a higher acceptance to end-users and able to follow the changing business requirements to strive for competitive advantage. The question is: is this going to work in practice or is this only based on a nice marketing and sales story.
Principle 5: Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done. Motivation is such an obvious item in agile development that this is often overseen. Motivation has to be both in the field of the expertise of the developer and the developer must be motivated in applying agile methods. (more…)
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