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Articles
- insights Newsletter (16)
- A Manager's Guide to Getting Feedback by: Esther
June 29, 2010, 10:59
- Achieving Agility: Means to an End, or End in Itself by: Esther
June 22, 2010, 10:06
- As Goes the Contracting, So Goes the Contract by: Esther
April 5, 2011, 14:06
- Building a Requirements Foundation with Customer Interviews by: Esther
June 7, 2010, 09:21
- Hiring for a Collaborative Team by: Esther
July 7, 2010, 05:30
- Improve Financial Results by Focusing on Value, Not Costs by: Esther
September 10, 2010, 06:23
- Interviewing Your Next Boss by: Esther
August 27, 2010, 06:55
- Know Thy Customer by: Esther
July 23, 2010, 07:43
- Managing a Struggling Employee by: Esther
October 1, 2010, 10:49
- Self-facilitation Skills for Teams by: Esther
July 20, 2010, 11:49
- Seven Lessons from a Top-Down Change by: Esther
May 17, 2010, 12:15
- Successful Top Down Change Starts with Change at the Top by: Esther
October 14, 2010, 06:25
- The Appreciation Gap by: Esther
August 24, 2010, 07:34
- Volume 1, Number 1 (1)
- Interviewing Your Next Boss by: Esther
August 27, 2010, 06:55
- Interviewing Your Next Boss by: Esther
- Volume 1, Number 2 (1)
- Managing a Struggling Employee by: Esther
October 1, 2010, 10:49
- Managing a Struggling Employee by: Esther
- Volume 3, Number 1 (1)
- As Goes the Contracting, So Goes the Contract by: Esther
April 5, 2011, 14:06
- As Goes the Contracting, So Goes the Contract by: Esther
- Volume 6, Number 3 (1)
- Improve Financial Results by Focusing on Value, Not Costs by: Esther
September 10, 2010, 06:23
- Improve Financial Results by Focusing on Value, Not Costs by: Esther
- Volume 6, Number 4 (1)
- Successful Top Down Change Starts with Change at the Top by: Esther
October 14, 2010, 06:25
- Successful Top Down Change Starts with Change at the Top by: Esther
- Volume 7, Number 1 (1)
- Seeing System Dynamics: Beyond Budget Reports by: Esther
February 24, 2011, 08:15
- Seeing System Dynamics: Beyond Budget Reports by: Esther
- Volume 7, Number 2 (1)
- A Manager's Guide to Building a Relationship with the Team by: Esther
September 6, 2011, 07:04
- A Manager's Guide to Building a Relationship with the Team by: Esther
- Volume 7, Number 3 (1)
- Supporting Team-Based Work by: Esther
November 4, 2011, 06:53
- Supporting Team-Based Work by: Esther
- A Manager's Guide to Getting Feedback by: Esther
- Presentation Slides (7)
- Agile Retrospectives: A Primer by: Esther
February 1, 2011, 08:06
- Agile Teams at Scale: Beyond Scrum of Scrums by: Esther
December 27, 2011, 10:15
- Double Loop Learning in Retrospectives II by: Esther
July 13, 2011, 10:30
- Manager as Work System Designer: 14 Essential Questions by: Esther
August 13, 2010, 09:52
- Musings on Management: Moving away from Command & Control by: Esther
November 3, 2010, 06:27
- Shifting Organizational Patterns by: Esther
March 15, 2011, 16:02
- Team Traps! by: Esther
January 20, 2011, 21:00
- Agile Retrospectives: A Primer by: Esther
- Reading Rack (43)
- (Management) Process Improvement by: Esther
June 24, 2010, 12:36
- 4 Tips for Getting Your Ideas Accepted by: Esther
November 22, 2010, 07:54
- A Coaching Toolkit by: Esther
July 16, 2010, 06:43
- A Defining Moment by: Esther
March 24, 2010, 19:36
- A Tale of a Too-Hands-Off Manager by: Esther
October 21, 2010, 07:17
- Are you part of the team if you are on the team part-time? by: Esther
November 30, 2010, 07:57
- Are You Ready to Coach? by: Esther
February 7, 2011, 07:21
- Beyond Belief by: Esther
April 24, 2010, 01:03
- Bridging Structural Conflict: Same and Different by: Esther
March 8, 2011, 07:27
- Building Effective Teams: Miss the Start, Miss the End by: Esther
November 28, 2011, 07:15
- Bully Boss by: Esther
November 17, 2010, 06:32
- Collaboration: more than facilitated meetings by: Esther
August 20, 2010, 07:51
- Dealing with "Difficult" Co-workers by: Esther
November 26, 2010, 08:25
- Eight Reasons Retrospectives Fail (And What You Can Do about Them) by: Esther
June 12, 2010, 14:17
- Facing Up to the Truth by: Esther
April 9, 2010, 19:48
- First Things First: Deal with the Human, then, Work by: Esther
September 21, 2010, 07:21
- Five Tips for Retrospective Leaders and Meeting Moderators by: Esther
June 16, 2010, 23:01
- Fixing the Quick Fix by: Esther
May 5, 2011, 05:21
- For Managers: 8 Ways to Build Trust, 3 to Break It by: Esther
August 12, 2010, 06:00
- Gird Your Loins by: Esther
January 26, 2011, 06:36
- Held Hostage by a Prima Donna by: Esther
September 13, 2010, 08:53
- Is Collaboration the Right Way to Work? It Depends. by: Esther
October 12, 2010, 06:49
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: Retrospectives Help Teams Inspect and Adapt by: Esther
June 12, 2010, 14:26
- Making Retrospective Changes Stick by: Esther
June 12, 2010, 14:08
- Measuring Up by: Esther
August 2, 2010, 07:09
- No More Middleman: Avoid triangulated feedback by: Esther
October 6, 2010, 16:02
- Peer-to-Peer Feedback by: Esther
February 15, 2011, 07:55
- Performance Without Appraisal: Addressing the Most Common Concerns by: Esther
July 12, 2010, 08:03
- Real leaders make space for others to shine by: Esther
December 21, 2010, 23:02
- Real-time Feedback by: Esther
March 14, 2010, 18:18
- Rethinking Manager's Relationship with Agile Teams by: Esther
August 12, 2011, 13:10
- Seven Ways to Revitalize Your Sprint Retrospectives by: Esther
June 12, 2010, 14:38
- Should a manager know a language? Yes. One that enables communication with people. by: Esther
December 9, 2010, 06:04
- Should a ScrumMaster (or any coach) Give Performance Appraisals? by: Esther
July 11, 2010, 10:10
- Six Ways that Team Members Build Trust with Each Other by: Esther
August 4, 2010, 06:28
- Skills Are Only Half the Equation for Success by: Esther
July 1, 2010, 09:15
- Still No Silver Bullets by: Esther
March 21, 2011, 01:44
- Stuck in Neutral by: Esther
March 2, 2010, 21:23
- Tale of a Yo-Yo Manager by: Esther
October 19, 2010, 13:16
- Talk, Talk, Talk by: Esther
April 28, 2011, 07:27
- The Agile Blindside by: Esther
May 31, 2011, 06:44
- The Blame Game by: Esther
July 27, 2010, 05:41
- Yes. No. Negotiate. by: Esther
July 6, 2011, 05:28
- Conflict (2)
- Bridging Structural Conflict: Same and Different by: Esther
March 8, 2011, 07:27
- Peer-to-Peer Feedback by: Esther
February 15, 2011, 07:55
- Bridging Structural Conflict: Same and Different by: Esther
- (Management) Process Improvement by: Esther
- Worth Taking Note (92)
- /Estimating/ is often helpful. /Estimates/ are often not. by: Esther
March 13, 2012, 05:23
- A Compensation Story by: Esther
June 19, 2006, 12:26
- A Conversation with Glen Alleman by: Esther
January 5, 2009, 16:47
- Agile Teams at Scale: Beyond Scrum of Scrums by: Esther
December 27, 2011, 10:15
- Agile UI Design by: Esther
May 3, 2010, 22:40
- Another Cautionary Tale: Creating a mess by "eliminating waste" by: Esther
November 2, 2010, 07:11
- Applying "the simplest thing that could possibly work" principle by: Esther
February 11, 2009, 07:40
- Are you doing your best? by: Esther
February 26, 2007, 10:23
- Astonishing advice by: Esther
May 5, 2003, 06:51
- Best at argument != Best ideas by: Esther
May 25, 2011, 13:16
- Bifurcated Concentration of Knowledge Doesn’t Serve by: Esther
June 24, 2010, 09:05
- Building Trust, One Iteration at a Time by: Esther
April 26, 2011, 12:51
- But /My/ Team Needs a Leader by: Esther
September 7, 2010, 02:48
- But are they working hard? by: Esther
February 27, 2012, 10:26
- Calculating Meeting ROTI (Return on Time invested) by: Esther
July 28, 2003, 07:32
- Can a team have 100 (or more) members? by: Esther
April 1, 2011, 10:58
- Changing to Agile, in an Agile Manner by: Esther
March 3, 2011, 10:30
- Command & Control: Let's talk about power by: Esther
January 2, 2012, 07:47
- Context matters for team trust by: Esther
October 14, 2008, 10:08
- culture of entitlement, culture of blame by: Esther
May 17, 2010, 09:39
- Curing System Blindness by: Esther
October 26, 2010, 09:09
- Diluting Appreciation by: Esther
September 13, 2006, 19:13
- Eleven things to remember about people in middle management roles. by: Esther
February 9, 2011, 06:58
- Eliminate Performance Reviews! by: Esther
July 12, 2010, 08:07
- Empowering Leadership by: Esther
June 17, 2011, 07:35
- Empowering Leadership II by: Esther
July 28, 2011, 08:19
- Entering Groups by: Esther
March 25, 2011, 05:54
- Estimating hard-to-measure benefits by: Esther
March 21, 2007, 07:32
- Facilitative Leadership: the alternative to command and control by: Esther
May 29, 2005, 06:14
- Fatal Delegation Mistakes by: Esther
February 26, 2006, 09:22
- Feedback Doesn’t Just Roll Down Hill by: Esther
December 2, 2008, 06:33
- Firing by: Esther
September 29, 2006, 04:26
- Five Ways that Team Members Build Trust with Each Other by: Esther
April 2, 2009, 16:05
- Hiring for an Agile Team: 4 Reasons to Up Your Hiring Game by: Esther
December 9, 2011, 10:41
- How much does a promotion to management cost in your company? by: Esther
September 4, 2003, 09:34
- How Much Self-management Is Right for a Team? by: Esther
November 11, 2010, 09:45
- intake->meaning->feeling->response by: Esther
January 13, 2009, 09:52
- it isn’t “either/or” by: Esther
March 23, 2010, 11:17
- Meaningless Management Phrases by: Esther
April 18, 2003, 06:34
- Metrics for Agile by: Esther
October 11, 2011, 08:46
- Misconceptions about Self-Organizing Teams by: Esther
July 19, 2011, 07:06
- More evidence that prima donnas (and prima dons) don’t help overall achievement by: Esther
December 29, 2006, 08:18
- More Meaningless Management Phrases by: Esther
April 18, 2003, 15:47
- Musing on Organizational Change by: Esther
May 21, 2010, 09:48
- Musings on Management Work, I by: Esther
October 28, 2010, 10:06
- New Roles for Managers: Interview with Lean Magazine by: Esther
November 22, 2011, 13:03
- No is in the air by: Esther
June 28, 2005, 20:41
- Norms, Values, Working Agreements, Simple Rules by: Esther
April 18, 2011, 09:32
- Now *this* is an individual problem by: Esther
September 18, 2006, 18:39
- One-on-Ones with Self-organizing Teams by: Esther
August 10, 2010, 04:18
- Overcoming "resistance" by: Esther
April 7, 2007, 18:14
- Pay for Performance (and why it doesn’t really work) by: Esther
March 10, 2007, 07:50
- Peck, peck, peck by: Esther
October 26, 2011, 13:38
- Pendulum Swings and Oscillating Systems by: Esther
April 12, 2011, 08:59
- Performance without Appraisal: Build Feedback into the System by: Esther
October 26, 2009, 18:01
- Perils of Part-time team membership by: Esther
November 14, 2006, 09:25
- Pesky co-workers by: Esther
March 8, 2007, 06:41
- Practicing Leadership by: Esther
March 6, 2007, 06:29
- Praise Sandwich Tastes Icky, II by: Esther
May 8, 2009, 06:00
- Promoting Double Loop Learning in Retrospectives by: Esther
June 30, 2011, 07:11
- Public humiliation is not feedback by: Esther
November 19, 2010, 06:33
- Reframing: What to do when you lack something you need. by: Esther
July 8, 2003, 14:37
- Resources don't write software. People do. by: Esther
December 6, 2010, 07:26
- ScrumMasters and Agile Coaches: More than a Title by: Esther
November 15, 2011, 08:04
- Shifting the Pattern: A Systems Approach to Change by: Esther
June 3, 2010, 09:22
- Shocking Survey Results about Performance Appraisal by: Esther
May 21, 2009, 06:34
- system blindness by: Esther
March 7, 2009, 08:00
- Team Trap #1: Messing with the membership by: Esther
February 22, 2011, 08:54
- Team Trap #3: Failing to Navigate Conflict by: Esther
March 30, 2011, 05:48
- Team Trap #5: Withholding Information by: Esther
January 5, 2011, 08:31
- Team Trap #8: Ignoring the Role of Trust by: Esther
January 11, 2011, 08:13
- The Benefits of Peer Feedback by: Esther
April 14, 2009, 06:50
- The Confusing Field of Coaching by: Esther
August 18, 2010, 08:04
- The fundamental attribution error and accountability by: Esther
December 15, 2010, 09:26
- The Pay Off in Merit Pay (Not) by: Esther
January 14, 2009, 13:12
- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. by: Esther
April 7, 2003, 20:42
- They don’t get it (…well, maybe) by: Esther
November 26, 2007, 10:13
- Three Myths about Teams by: Esther
March 30, 2009, 06:30
- Three Pillars of Executive Support by: Esther
March 11, 2009, 09:22
- Trifecta of Doom: How Expectations for/about Managers Stymie Learning by: Esther
December 19, 2011, 08:53
- We Are Not Widgets by: Esther
March 12, 2003, 08:06
- What every manager should know about feedback by: Esther
April 28, 2007, 06:47
- What to do with a struggling employee by: Esther
April 22, 2009, 08:55
- What trust means for teams by: Esther
October 3, 2008, 08:52
- When is it time to move someone off a team? by: Esther
April 4, 2007, 19:00
- When there’s disagreement on feedback data by: Esther
May 18, 2009, 05:32
- When to stand back, when to step in by: Esther
June 11, 2009, 18:57
- Where there’s a Pattern, there are people who are part of it by: Esther
June 17, 2010, 07:31
- Why Ask Why (When other questions will work so much better)? by: Esther
March 19, 2003, 13:42
- Why not velocity as an agile metric? by: Esther
October 18, 2011, 05:49
- You really can’t do more with less by: Esther
August 7, 2003, 14:33
- Yours, Mine, Ours: Clarifying Decision Boundaries by: Esther
June 9, 2011, 15:29
- /Estimating/ is often helpful. /Estimates/ are often not. by: Esther
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