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Thoughts/experiences on engagement with virtual teams working in agile (Scrum) software development.
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Thoughts/experiences on engagement with virtual teams working in agile (Scrum) software development.
My company has recently gone to Scrum for software development management. I'm noticing some really great benefits in terms of engagement and some real challenges as well. I was wondering if any other members of the network have had any experience...
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- Who are you?
- Professionally, I'm a manager of a team doing creating software products. I've been doing this for 20+ years and love the challenges of figuring out what customers want and how to deliver that.
I've been married to Ed for 22 years. We have a son Corey, 16 and a daughter Erin, 7. Both play ice hockey. In my free time, I like to do things with my family, make quilts & counted cross stitch pictures, snow ski, scuba dive and run. We love to travel to out of the way places to scuba dive and vacation.
My current management challenge is how to engage with teams in an agile software development environment.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- I'm trying to be engaged and help my team be engaged
- Where are you located?
- Niskayuna, New York
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I summarized some high-level thought leadership from firms such as DDI, McKinsey, Towers Perrin, and Hewitt in my latest blog post. These are all papers from the last several months discussing engagement: bit.ly/3a4uft
I know that Towers Perrin a...
Thanks a lot for your help !
I actually did have a look on Gallup's 12 Questions, the only worry is that it measures more the enablers of employee engagement than employee engagement itself. I have however grouped the items into themes, and only o...
Not sure if this is the same as the one mentioned but Gallup has 12 Questions that they use.
http://www.workforce.com/section/09/article/23/53/40.html
Hi Maggie,
Acually we have a training module for this exact circumstance. We call it cynics, victims and bystanders it is part of The Conversations Workshop. We wrote a book last year called Authentic Conversations which has a great deal to say ab...
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I am so glad you joined and just joining indicates a lot to me about your own engagement which will have an impact on your team engagement. I have an 18 years old and two 16 years olds but just one in hockey and he is a goalie! Thanks for being our last member before we went to triple digits. Way to go 99!