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A Tale of a Too-Hands-Off Manager

I recently worked with a team that was struggling. One of the team members, Tad, wasn’t playing by the rules the team had established. When the team...

0 replies - 2863 views - 04/14/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

What Does A Self-Organizing Team Has To Do with Leadership?

Let’s say we’ve “conquered agile”, and the prophecy came true: we have a self-organizing team. How does leadership fit into this? What does a...

0 replies - 1893 views - 02/02/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

Who Do You Promote Into Management?

I vividly remember my first promotion into management. I was looking for a promotion to be a senior engineer. I asked for a promotion. I got a promotion into...

0 replies - 1290 views - 12/24/12 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

6 Rules for Employee Rewards & Extrinsic Motivation

Extrinsic Motivation In 2001 American energy and services company Enron collapsed into bankruptcy. Apparently, its managers liked their...

1 replies - 4495 views - 11/13/12 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

What Makes a Great Operations Leader?

I've posted a few times about the posts by John Allspaw and this is another instance where I admire what he wrote and think it's worth quoting a few...

0 replies - 3740 views - 10/30/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

You are a Leader

Leaders are chosenLeadership is neither assigned nor selected. People choose whom to follow and a leader thereby emerges. “The led must not be compelled,...

1 replies - 2076 views - 01/03/11 by Michael Norton in News

DZone's Top 10 Agile and Lean Development Books

Developers typically have one or more indispensable books that they have always kept close at hand when diving deep into the coding realm.  But which ones are...

0 replies - 14686 views - 09/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Making it Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great.

0 replies - 13091 views - 06/07/10 by Jonathan Giles in Book Reviews

Good Technical Team Leader …?

Being a good TTL is not it easy … what are the things that TTL needs to have ? Below are my convictions about this: 1)  Solid Technical. 2)  Ability...

5 replies - 12393 views - 05/06/10 by Mohammad Juma in News

The Nonsense of Leadership (Princes and Priests)

Leadership is a term used by many, but sometimes understood by only a few. Again and again I feel compelled to question ideas about leadership that seem to...

1 replies - 1972 views - 05/04/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Agile Coaching

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Agile Coaching' by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. This excerpt was...

6 replies - 4793 views - 11/11/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles