Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear. Drawing on 20 years of Agile experience, Ron narrows down the three root causes of low-performing teams as well as solutions that managers can implement to improve them.

Show Notes

• Learning what makes software development teams hum (1:40)
• What prevents a team from humming (3:31)
• Building effective stand-ups (10:32)
• Do < Accomplish (15:43)
• The high value of predictability (19:28)
• Implement the “fist-to-five” to your stand-up (23:50)
• How to observe psychological safety (29:28)
• Misunderstanding so-called “introverts” (31:31)
• Planning is every team member’s job (36:58)
• Providing value for stakeholders is an infinite game, not a finite one (38:44)

Links:

• Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse
• Managing the Unmanageable, 2nd Edition, Ron Lichty
• https://ronlichty.com/
• http://managingtheunmanageable.net/