Week Ending 3rd February 2023
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Visualising Work
Quite a productive week here at anAgileMind. We have been delighted to welcome Colin Sloss who has just published his first article with us. We hope this will become part of an irregular series from Colin. You can read Colin’s article about Visualising Work.
We also have an article from Will Sambrook. This time Will is discussing the traps and pitfalls surrounding trying to Right Size the wrong things…
New and Improved Content
We are focusing on completing the content for the Leading not Managing Value and Behaviour. We also have a Practice page on Relative Estimation to support Will’s new article. Finally, we have refreshed our Ideas page on Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose.
Autonomous teams that display rigour and discipline do not need to be managed. Teams need to be led in the delivery of their product and services. Leaders exercise leadership by creating and sustaining circles of influence not by using their hierarchical position. Leadership emerges from mastery of a domain allowing the leader to influence colleagues within that domain - their circle of influence.
The team’s culture will influence how they work, particularly the practices and behaviours they adopt and their adherence to them. Culture works for us to enable success or works against us to hamper success. We promote a team culture that will foster the behaviours that will enable the team to be successful.
Most commonly, agile teams use relative estimation to size the work they need to do - that is they estimate the size of a backlog item relative to other backlog items. Relative estimation is based on having a sufficient understanding of a backlog item so that its scale, complexity, risk and many other factors can be assessed against those of similar, related or recently completed backlog items.
What is it that motivates us to deliver a great performance for our customers, colleagues and our employer? What is it that makes us happy in our work? A simple assumption is that money makes all the difference. But there is a lot of evidence that other factors also play an important role in motivating us to succeed.