People and Teams
People and Teams
People and Teams Stories
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Are You a Micromanager?There's a difference between hands-on management, which can be positive, and micromanagement, which means you must make every decision, you take a lead role in all significant tasks, and you ignore others' ideas. Naomi Karten reveals more warning signs—plus ways to deal with being a micromanager. | 
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Tips for Managing Conflict You can’t avoid conflict at work. Once differences surface, a catalyst for serious conflict is the tendency for the parties to treat their differences as a zero sum game: For one party to win, the other has to lose. It doesn't have to be that way. Naomi Karten gives some tips for managing conflict. |
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Where Do Great Product Ideas Come From?The current information technology trend is that of survival of the fittest, where players thrive based on success factors such as releases of new products that are feature rich, user experience driven, and performance focused. Rajini Padmanaban looks at where the new product ideas come from. | 
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What Is an Expert?Many people these days tout themselves as experts. But they can't all be, can they? Naomi Karten explores several opinions of what makes someone an expert, how easy it is to be misled into seeing expertise where it may not exist, and the risks and responsibility that come with the label. |
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Cognitive Biases that Affect Judgment and Decision MakingCognitive biases are biases in judgment and decision making. We are the sum of our biases, and there’s little chance of eliminating all of them. But by acknowledging them, you may be able to prevent them from causing you to make an unsound decision. Naomi Karten mentions three to be aware of. |
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Why People on Agile Teams Need FeedbackAgile teams work by continually improving, and feedback is essential for agile methods to work well. Giving feedback to your team members and peers is hard, and receiving it is sometimes harder, especially when it’s not delivered with the right amount of thought. | 
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Who—or What—Is a Software Geek? The trouble with calling someone in the software development world a "geek" is that he won't know whether or not you mean it as a compliment. Some fly their geek flag with pride; others bear the mark with shame. What if we added a new, more inclusive and prideful definition? Would it stick? |
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Three Tips to Help Form a Highly Productive Agile TeamThe dynamic of working in a team is vastly different from working on your own. But if a team is assembled well, it can accomplish more than the individuals could have separately. These suggestions will help you form a team that will work together well and be greater than the sum of its parts. | 
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