Archive of Tag 'productivity'


Developers’ Performance: Communication Skills

Posted by Jeff Hayes on November 29, 2022 in Agile


You may have noticed that I no longer refer to the development team, or Dev Team, in the title of this series and this is for a good reason. Ken Schwaber and…

High performing teams require excellent communication skills

Dev Team Performance: Team Composition

Posted by Jeff Hayes on July 6, 2020 in Agile


The last two articles focused on Scrum team performance as a whole and rudimentary skills for dev team performance, the first of three requirements of a development team to help it achieve…

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Dev Team Performance: Rudimentary Skills

Posted by Jeff Hayes on May 8, 2020 in Agile


Before we get back to our discussion on Scrum team performance, let’s take a look at a real world example of how agile works versus how waterfall works (or doesn’t). Coronavirus and…

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Scrum Team Performance: Overview

Posted by Jeff Hayes on March 6, 2020 in Agile


Who benefits from a Scrum team that is formed with a clear understanding of the rules, roles, events and artifacts of Scrum, accelerates its productivity in the short term, and continues to…

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What is DevOps and Why Should I Care?

Posted by Erin Quick-Laughlin on April 9, 2019 in Agile


Are there bits and pieces of your company that suffer from “Never been done before, and therefore not a viable option for us?” The operations best practice entitled DevOps may fall into…

What is DevOps? CartoonStock Artist Aaron Bacall

Visual Storytelling: Illustration or Photography?

Posted by Scott Alberts on February 15, 2016 in Digital Marketing


“Seeing is believing.” “A picture is worth a thousand words.”   Photography can be stunning and eye-catching and, occasionally, even free. Yes, photography can certainly document a story. But an illustration can…

Visual storytelling example by Scott Alberts

Thus Spake Google: How Wagging the Dog is Working for the Rest of Us

Posted by Jeff Hayes on April 30, 2014 in Technology


Google has become one of the most successful companies in history, in part due to its ability to tell us who we are.  Asking metaphorically, Is Google a prophet? Can it predict…

People everywhere are 'wagging the dog' by what they search for.

ROI of Culture on IT Alignment

Posted by Jeff Hayes on July 31, 2012 in Agile


What does culture — that quality in groups of people that govern what we believe and how we behave — have to do with “getting things done”? And by extension, what does…

How Does One Measure the ROI of Culture on IT Alignment?

Technology Alignment in a Global Context

Posted by Jeff Hayes on May 20, 2012 in Agile


During a recent trip to Japan I found several examples of how culture plays a role in the success of certain types of business. So dramatic are some of the differences between…

Technology alignment can be a great benefit to companies of every size.

Part I: The Five Types of Toxic Coworkers

Posted by Tim Holdsworth on February 27, 2011 in Quality of Life


We’re all just trying to make a living and it helps to have friends who all get along — but some people are particularly adept at making it worse than it has…

The five types of toxic coworker: Identify and beware