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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 experiences…
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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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Look beyond generic engagement tools: focus on personal drivers from employees, group them accordingly and align engagement tools.
The real challenge to engage employees is to gain trust by giving them autonomy to shape their own jobs to their own wishes, interests and strengths but always aligned with an open and transparant organisational vision and strategy.
Before you start engaging an employee, know him and respect him as an individual first and engagement will follow.
Listen! Zip your mouth. Don't interrupt them when they are opening up to you and expressing there feelings. Remember, its about them not you!
Engagement is to be seen not as an activity but that is the only way the society works.
The management equivalent of ‘Air’ is to practice transparency with team members by managers.
Dr. Jose M F, India, Bangalore
The most important priority for leaders is to cultivate, appreciate, and leverage the vast untapped potential of every employee in their organizations.
If you focus on engagement, productivity will follow. If you focus on productivity, you may not get it.
To begin engagement, sit down with each employee for 40-60 minutes, privately, quietly, and confidentially, and get to know them better -- thei…
I'd appreciate hearing from others on best practices regarding the frequency of employee engagement surveys. I've seen lots of debates on what is the best interval to use for regular measurement and it wouuld help if you could share how often you do…
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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!