Software development quotes
Expecting high performance does not mean that you demand it. Expecting high performance means that you simply know achieving it is more than possible, it is normal. Expecting high performance means that you believe the team can attain it, so you hold them, compassionately and firmly, to that expectation. By …
As Agile coaches, we do our best to determine root issues that may be causing team dysfunction and we try to resolve them by building trust with individuals and teams, guiding them to find answers that work for them, and helping to instill a positive culture. But sometimes an individual …
A few years back, I was working with an organization where teams were achieving the expected increase in velocity, but leadership didn’t feel like things were moving any faster. Selecting one team, we looked at their history and found that their velocity had gone from an average of about 20 …
The most successful transformations I have experienced—the ones where you walk into the office and there is a tangible difference in the energy and interactions between people, where the commercial and management stakeholders are as excited and invested as the technology stakeholders, where everyone agrees on the metrics that matter …
Something that I’ve learned from other experienced coaches like Michel Céré is that when working with people, one of the best ways to help them to grow is to become their mirror. Mirroring other people’s behaviors will reflect to them what is potentially invisible to their eyes and maybe will …
When they don’t have an automated suite of tests acting as a safety net, the programmers may start viewing the testers themselves as a safety net. It’s easy to imagine that Joe Programmers’s thought process goes like this: “I ought to go back and add some automated unit tests for …
