Crucial Conversations happen where the stakes are high, opinions vary and emotions run strong. These situations arise all the time in agile development teams and can lead to misunderstandings, inaction or strained relationships. In this post I'll explain when Crucial Conversations can pop up and give you some tips on how to tackle them.
In January, Redgate will undertake another self-selection reteaming process. This post explains why we'll be doing that and how we'll do it
This post explains in detail exactly how Redgate ran it's first formal team self-selection process, from initial planning to completion.
Are you attracted to the idea of allowing people to decide for themselves what they work on, but worried about what might happen as a result? Yep, we were too. Here's how we kept true to the ideals of self-determination but reduced our collective anxiety about the process.
At the end of June Redgate's Product Development organisation ran a retrospective session to review how things have gone in our corner of Redgate in the first half of 2019. This post explains how we ran the large scale retrospective and what we discovered by doing it.
What have the Wright Brothers, the original Boeing 737 and the Airbus A380 got to do with Redgate's internal development conference, Level Up 2019?
While understanding the "Why" behind a task or action is important, understanding the "Why" behind someone’s approach to leadership can be transformative.
While understanding the "Why" behind a task or action is important, understanding the "Why" behind someone’s approach to leadership can be transformative. In this post, I share my Whys behind how I lead and what I do.
When faced with dysfunction in our interviewing process we decided to improve things by creating a self-organising team. But did it work?
At Redgate we’ve found that development teams with clear purpose, self-direction and freedom to act were the most engaged and delivered amazing results. To shape all our teams to have these qualities we identified six key principles and unleashed our Fantastic Beasts!
Leading Agile Teams 