Viktor Didenchuk

What’s Wrong With Your New Team? | HackerNoon

Have you ever had a situation where you onboarded a new team, but something needed to be fixed? You have done the recruitment, gone through all of your standard onboarding steps, and even had a formal contracting session with the most excellent name for the team and team charter that bonds them all in an agreement. No matter what you have done – the dynamics are wrong in the team, and the new team just

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When Agile Is No Longer Needed | HackerNoon

Many organizations are starting to hesitate to go full steam on the Agile transformation. Some of them are getting rid of Scrum Masters, some are incorporating their responsibilities into more comprehensive project and product management roles, and some are reverting to control – introducing some misleading frameworks that somehow have been designed to embrace and promote the same principles, but in reality, just another opportunity for senior leadership to micromanage what is going on inside

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Why Are Some Leadership Teams Designed to Fail? | HackerNoon

Have you ever joined the team and felt something needs to be corrected? Everyone in the team is doing great on paper and in performance management assessment, and their peers deliver quickly. Still, when it comes to personal effectiveness – it needs help. They follow meeting cadences, maintain a board with up-to-date tasks, and have prioritisation techniques, but they don’t work. Goals are not achieved, critical calls are not made, and there is this feeling

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Evidence-Based Management: When the Path Is Missing | HackerNoon

What does an organization have to do when it is in complete uncertainty? For example, the company doesn’t know where to go next, the next step of its journey, and where to get the mission. Of course, we can say to go and try to find a mission, but this is easy only on paper. It is hard to make a first step regarding actual experiments. So, let’s try to understand what it means to

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Evidence-Based Management: Where to Start? | HackerNoon

If you haven’t read my article about evidence-based management’s history and core principles, I recommend you do so by following the link: https://hackernoon.com/evidence-based-management-in-business-will-it-make-a-difference If you have decided to start implementing evidence-based management in your organization, I would like to talk about the first steps. The whole idea is to use the objective evidence of our work to steer towards a better/faster/more efficient way to achieve the goal. While we can aim to uncover the best

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The Rabbit Hole: Local Optimizations That Harm | HackerNoon

Optimizations – what do you think when you hear this word? Something is getting better and more effective and genuinely helps to extract more value from what people do. But what happens when we focus more on optimization than the initial cause? We Try to Optimize Everywhere. Think about your day-to-day activities: We use Jira or any other task-management system; We have created a Definition of Ready, which indicates that something can be started; Definition

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