People and Teams
People and Teams
People and Teams Stories
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The Art of Asking Questions Effectively to Get the Best AnswersAsking effective questions is a powerful skill. It can help you better understand your client’s problem, work with your staff more effectively, gather better information, defuse volatile situations, and reduce mistakes. So to get the most useful answers, think carefully about what questions you ask. | 
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How to Present Your Ideas So They Have the Best Chance of Being Sold Have you ever proposed an important change and those in charge stubbornly refused to back your ideas? Consider whether it was because your proposal was one-sided, misdirected, or poorly packaged. To persuade managers, stakeholders, or customers to support your ideas, keep these points in mind. |
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Creating an Environment that Supports Self-Organizing TeamsSelf-organizing agile teams leverage some basic qualities about what motivates people to help teams deliver. Since these qualities often run counter to traditional management structures, it takes effort to create an environment that supports these kinds of teams. | 
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What Makes Jeff Bezos the Most Respected CEO? It was recently noted that Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is the most respected CEO in Silicon Valley—despite his not actually living there. Rajini Padmanaban examines why Jeff Bezos keeps winning such accolades and what others can learn from him and apply in their professional lives. |
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What You Can Learn from Sony about Cost Versus ValueSony is now worth a fraction of what it was ten years ago because the company started asking, "What will make us the most money right now?" Your question should not be how much something costs; you should be asking, “How much value will this project provide?” Learn to tell the difference. | 
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Agile Development Teams: Plan or Be Planned ForSteve Vaughn writes that if your team is not planning for future releases, someone else will plan them for you. Teams must embrace the fact that strategic planning will happen and take ownership of the process. | 
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What Scandinavians Can Teach Us about Happiness at WorkThere is a Scandinavian word for real happiness at work: arbejdsglaede. It exists only in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian—no other language has a word that means quite what this does. It's loving what you do. Read on to learn how to achieve arbejdsglaede and actually look forward to Monday mornings. |
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Remember: Your Goal Is to Solve Your Customers' ProblemsSteve Berczuk reminds us that while estimation, process, and technical skill are essential to delivering value to a customer in a cost-effective way, they are just means to your primary goal of solving problems. |
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