Make Good #1
Delivery
1. To produce or achieve what is desired or expected; make good.
If the definition of delivery is to ‘produce or achieve what is desired’ we are all doing delivery. It transcends every role and in the right workplace, everyone is held accountable for its success.
This newsletter is therefore not just aimed at the delivery managers, the product owners or the project managers but literally anyone involved in the delivery of digital projects and products.
It will signpost the best content from the last week, so we can all continue on the journey to “make good”. Here is the first one, if you’d like to receive these in your inbox in future.
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Top 5 reads
1. Feedback in remote teams: The gift that keeps on giving
Use the “I appreciate” model for encouraging team members to give regular feedback
2. 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns
Join me and nod along to these common scrum anti-patterns, then pick a couple to work on
3. 40 ways to invest in more resilient teams
Another brilliant post from John Cutler on fostering the right environment for risk-taking and resilience
4. Optimising your team's velocity of learning
Focus your sprints on outcomes not points
5. Productive teams
75% of employees feel they could be contributing more than they currently are, so why aren’t they? What makes a productive team?
Inspiring tweets
@jdrake3t @joshilewis @lancewalton @RonJeffries @neil_killick @mheusser @keithb_b If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing - Deming
— Martin Burns (@MartinBurnsSCO) May 14, 2017
Good PMs...
— John Cutler (@johncutlefish) May 21, 2017
Ask why
Share context
Validate impact
Minimize added complexity
Explore asymmetries
Respect makers
Hashtags worth a follow
- Tweets from Self.Conference on tech and soft skills #selfconf
- Tweets from Write the docs a conference for technical writers #writethedocs
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