Two weeks from today, I'll be running a workshop at #Agile2023 about navigating team conflict (and avoiding mistakes I've made). Who will I get to see there? https://t.co/y3jZuYN4Bu
When working with someone who isn’t meeting my expectations, I ask myself these questions.
Do I know what I expect?
Can I describe when my expectation is being met and not?
Is it reasonable/possible to expect that in this situation from this person?
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Have I agreed it is reasonable/possible to provide that support?
Have I agreed to ensure that support?
Have they committed to meeting my expectation?
Have they received the support we agreed on?
4/5
An essential part of your role is to connect people to the larger organization in a way that creates helpful transparency, not anxiety.
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When we adopt tools and methods without thinking about and clarifying what we need them to do in our context, we almost guarantee that they will not work as we need them to.
But it’s way easier to blame meetings, metrics, and managers.
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We “promote” brilliant engineers to managers but don’t support them in understanding their new job because “they’re smart, they’ll figure out.” Is it any surprise that they struggle? Who has ever told them what it means to be a manager in this company? In this department?
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