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Empower Your Team and Drive Growth: Effective Strategies for Delegating and Supporting Performance Learn powerful strategies to empower your team and drive growth. Discover how to delegate tasks based on expertise, provide growth opportunities through pair programming, agile practice, or mentoring, and support team performance. Become a successful leader and foster a high-performing team. #EmpowerYourTeam #DriveGrowth #DelegationStrategies #SupportTeamPerformance #LeadershipSkills #TeamEmpowerment #AgilePractices #MentoringTips #GrowthOpportunities #HighPerformingTeam

Happy to share my latest Medium article: "Team Spirit 2.0: Lessons from Sports for Agile Software Teams" 🏀⚽️ Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to closely observe a basketball game and study the teams and their dynamics. It got me thinking about how much software teams are like sports teams in creating a strong team spirit and excitement, just like in basketball or football. In this piece, we will explore the impactful similarities between sports team strategies, especially influenced by leaders such as Guardiola, and how they can be integrated into software development teams. From crafting a shared vision to fostering team dynamics and boosting morale, there's a wealth of insights waiting for you. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dGqMnsiG #TeamSpirit #SoftwareDevelopment #Leadership #Inspiration #Guardiola #ScrumMaster #agile

Someone reading this is on a dev team or manages a company with a dev team, that struggles mightily to deliver on time, on budget, with everything that's been asked for. That team is applying crazy amounts of effort and analytical thinking and creativity to overcoming obstacles it can't even see. We should have a quick chat. 🎯 Our model--Diagnostics, Roadmap, Coaching, and Progress Diagnostics solves the inefficiencies that obstruct innovation and project progress. #DevTeamEfficiency #ProjectManagement #Innovation #OvercomingObstacles #TechLeadership

Experimenting Together to Innovate: The Art of Cycling Out, Not Rolling Out "As one might roll out a carpet, a rollout implies that something is ready to go, just needing a bit of momentum to propel it forward. Cycling out, by contrast, is a journey punctuated with deliberate and thoughtful iteration and learning. Any company trying to innovate must figure out a way to learn as quickly as possible from early experiences (preferably at a small scale) in the life of the project. There are no shortcuts. To provide a compelling new product or service that works and appeals to a wide range of customers, you have to be willing to start with one that doesn’t work well. It means taking seriously the adage of nineteenth-century British philosopher G. K. Chesterton:  “If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.” Of course, just doing something badly (before you figure out how to do it well) isn’t enough. To learn fast from experience, managers have to deliberately frame the early-stage experiences as experiments. Experiments generate data—and data must be learned from. On the innovation journey, each step is an experiment, and each experiment must be different from the one before. Its design must incorporate the knowledge gained in the prior cycle. In this way, an innovation cycles out, bumpily, improving as it expands. ...The point is simply to try things and see what happens. It’s easy to stay in the conceptual plane—to talk about ideas and possibilities forever. A key to successful innovation is making frequent, small forays into action." ― Amy Edmondson, Teaming to Innovate https://lnkd.in/gREkjT-y #teaming #teamwork #team #teamcollaboration #ensembleprogramming #ensemble #mobprogramming #radicalcandor #interpersonalcommunication #interpersonalskills #interpersonalleadership #conflictresolution #understanding #agility #agile #selforganization #people #work #innovation #crossplatformdevelopment #crossplatform #mentalmodels #pairprogramming #extremeprogramming #modernagile #psychologicalsafety #continuousimprovement #collaboration #leadership #experimentation #learning

"...1:1 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧...." Don't you wanna hear your tech & product experts saying this as well? And receiving this very individual support? You are in charge to make it happen! 🚀 Together with CoachHub - The digital coaching platform on your side!

It’s good to look at other domains to see what might be effective in our domain. However, we ultimately have to get to the question in context. What could effective coaching look like in a product development context? Let’s start with product development teams creating software products. What could effective coaching look like in this situation? #productdevelopment

“My coach helped me to improve the skills that are the hardest for me to develop. I learned to talk about deeply technical topics in a simple way for non-technical people.” Do you also want to help your tech teams develop the skills that make the biggest difference, in a time when change is the only constant? Watch our tech & product team share how personalized coaching transforms their skills and boosts results! In the tech world, collaboration and communication are paramount. 1:1 coaching is the game-changer to: 🚀 Faster releases 💻 Better Code Reviews 📈 Sharper product prioritization 🌀 Applying agile frameworks 🌐 Improved engineer retention …and much more! Hear it first hand from people in the field of how 1:1 coaching is changing tech team enablement. When will you start to elevate your tech & product teams journey through digital coaching? 🚀 #TechTeamEmpowerment #DigitalCoaching #Tech #Product

During last week's mentorship session, a participant raised concerns about developers overestimating work and sought my recommendations to address this issue. It's crucial to recognize that this challenge isn't merely about overestimation but signifies a deeper problem—a lack of trust and collaboration within the product team. This issue often arises when there's a breakdown in trust and collaboration. Individuals may hesitate to be transparent about estimates due to a lack of trust among team members, be it developers, product managers, designers, or QA analysts. To effectively address the symptom, one must tackle the root cause. Instead of fixating on how to ensure accurate estimations, focus on enhancing trust within the team. Building trust is a gradual process that demands consistent effort and collaboration. As a product manager, you should work with your team to cultivate an environment where members feel genuinely safe to express opinions, share concerns, and provide feedback. If trust and collaboration are prioritized within a product team, many seemingly unrelated problems tend to resolve themselves. Rather than constantly dealing with symptoms, it's akin to replacing a leaking tap instead of repeatedly fixing it. Addressing topics like this is why I host free group mentorship sessions every two weeks on Saturdays. We have had 4 great sessions so far and we have two more to go before 2023 comes to an end. Our upcoming session is this Saturday, and you're welcome to join. Here's the link to register: https://lu.ma/75lh9kzi Wishing you a fantastic week ahead! #productmanagement #trust #collaboration

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How does Tech Leadership contribute to enhancement? Invest in mentorship: As a tech lead, leverage your experience to mentor junior developers and guide them on their career paths. Mentorship not only benefits the mentee but also enhances your leadership skills and fosters a culture of knowledge sharing within your team. Empower your team with Agile practices: Embrace Agile methodologies to foster collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement. Encourage regular stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, and retrospectives to keep projects on track and teams motivated. Embrace diversity and inclusion: Build diverse and inclusive teams to foster creativity, innovation, and empathy. Embrace diverse perspectives and create an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected. Stay curious and experiment: The tech industry is ever-changing, so embrace a mindset of continuous learning and experimentation. Encourage your team members to explore new technologies, tools, and approaches, and create a culture where failure is seen as a stepping stone to growth. Let's continue to support each other in our journey to drive innovation and make a positive impact in the tech world! #TechLeadership #AgilePractices #Mentorship #DiversityandInclusion #ContinuousLearning