With Great People: High-Performance Teams

Courage to Ignore Limits Richard Kasperowski interviews Steve Denning, author of The Age of Agile and contributor to Forbes.com. Steve talks about courage, openness to diverse viewpoints, and ignoring limits – working around the team’s constraints. Contact Steve at https://stevedenning.com, and check out his book, The Age of Agile, at https://kspr.co/theageofagile. Join hundreds of high-performers and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

Complementary Skills & Work Styles Richard Kasperowski interviews Wendy Wong, Senior Director of Product Management at Constant Contact. Wendy discusses opt-in team formation, complementary skills and work styles, and the right number of people on a team. Connect with Wendy at wwong@constantcontact.com. Join hundreds of high-performers and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

Richard Kasperowski interviews Eugene Krylov, VP of Engineering at HealthEdge. Eugene discusses learning, short feedback cycles, and inviting your actual customers to your sprint reviews. Connect with Eugene at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekrylov, visit HealthEdge at https://www.healthedge.com, and listen to HealthEdge’s CEO’s podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-health/. To support this podcast, sign up for my newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

Safe to Fail, Learn, and Grow Richard Kasperowski interviews Julie Bright. Julie is an Agile coach at Capital One. She introduces the concept of “going slow to go fast”. Julie and I chat about her experience with fostering an environment where it’s safe to fail, where it's safe to learn and grow from mistakes. If you enjoy this conversation with Julie, be sure to check out her LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-bright/. Julie will be appearing at the Agile Games conference on April 9-11, 2018, in the Boston area http://agilegamesconference.org. To support this podcast, sign up for my newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

When You Listen Better, Your Teammates Think Better Richard Kasperowski interviews Judy Rees. Judy is an author and an expert on Clean Language and distributed teams. Judy and I chat about attentive listening as the most important element of her best team ever. If you enjoy this conversation with Judy, be sure to check out her work at https://judyrees.co.uk/. Judy has a class on Clean Language coming up on March 9, 2018, in London https://kasperowski.com/event/london. Join hundreds of high-performers and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

Love the Work You Do, Do the Work You Love: an interview with Sateesh Kamisetti Richard Kasperowski interviews Sateesh Kamisetti, a young team leader and Scrum Master. Sateesh’s personal vision is to continuously explore, improve, and see life with a new lens every day. He shares thoughts on individual and team growth, such as: * Love the work you do, and do the work you love * Aim for fulfillment over money * Understand your personal “why”, and open up your perception to the “why” of other people Contact Sateesh at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sateesh-kamisetti-055a8281/. Join hundreds of high-performers and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

Jim and Michele McCarthy share the origins of the Core Protocols. The Core Protocols describe the behaviors of the best teams in the world. Jim and Michele observed teams in their lab and in industry until they understand the common behaviors that the best teams shared. The documented these behaviors and share them with the world as the Core Protocols. This episode is adapted from a guest lecture that Jim and Michele gave during Richard’s course, CSCI E-71 Agile Software Development, at Harvard University. To learn more about the McCarthys and their work, visit their website mccarthyshow.com, and the Facebook group, The Booted, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/8925005900/. Join hundreds of high-performers and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

People on high-performance teams act like they’re in love with each other. Given the building blocks of high-performance teams, add the behavior patterns of connection, productivity, and error handling. Put it all together with behaviors from previous episodes, and you have the recipe for love (or friendship if you’re not allowed to say “love” in your workplace). On high-performance teams, people act like they’re in love with each other. They channel that feeling to high productivity. This episode is a segment of Richard’s talk at Craft 2017 in Budapest. View the session sides at https://www.slideshare.net/rkasper/highperformance-teams-culture-and-core-protocols. Subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

Self-aware individuals are the building blocks of high-performance teams. This episode is a segment of Richard’s talk at Craft 2017 in Budapest. Self-aware individuals are the building blocks of high-performance teams. Richard shares information and activities to help you build self-awareness within yourself. View the session sides at https://www.slideshare.net/rkasper/highperformance-teams-culture-and-core-protocols.

Positive bias and freedom/autonomy are the foundations of high-performance teams. This episode is a segment of Richard’s talk at Craft 2017 in Budapest. Positive bias and freedom are the foundations of high-performance teams. Richard shares information and activities to help you embody these foundations with your team. View the session sides at https://www.slideshare.net/rkasper/highperformance-teams-culture-and-core-protocols.