How are you planning for psychological safety within your team?
I’ve delivered a number of presentations this year on the importance of building psychological safety within project teams and the role which projecRead More…
Category: Project Management
Project Management
CXOs: Don’t sugarcoat your IT initiatives
If you want staff to embrace technology projects, be honest about all their objectives–the good and the bad. If you’re not, your staff will have theiRead More…
6 ways to rebuild trust with frustrated stakeholders
Once trust is lost, it can be time-consuming and difficult to address. If distrust has become an issue, these six tips can help rebuild trust.Read More…
6 signs that teams don’t trust their leaders
Trust is one of the most important elements in a well-functioning team. When team members don’t trust their leaders it can become problematic for everRead More…
Is a lack of psychological safety preventing you from delegating?
Harvard Business Review published an article by Sabina Nawaz this week on some challenges managers face when they delegate work to their staff. The gaRead More…
It is harder to sell when times get tough!
While there are many cases where we might have to use our powers of influence and persuasion to sell stakeholders on supporting what we feel is the riRead More…
Don’t blame corporate culture for not cultivating psychological safety within your teams!
While speaking on the topic of psychological safety yesterday I was asked whether it is possible to create safety within a team if the prevailing cultRead More…
Batches? We don’t need no stinking batches! (Or do we?)
Emphasizing flow through the reduction or elimination of batching of work items is desirable but this is not always efficient or practical. So whaRead More…
C# designer Torgersen: Why the programming language is still so popular and where it’s going next
C# has been instrumental in setting technical benchmarks for the developer landscape since its creation in 2000. Lead designer Mads Torgersen shares tRead More…
Think top-down and bottom-up for agile transformations
A question which I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start an agile transformation within a company? Given a choiRead More…