community.atlassian.com - As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect, evaluate, and plan. Metrics offer a window into your team’s performance, efficiency, and areas for growth. By digging deeper into these key performance indicators, you can not only reflect on the past year but also shape a stronger, better strategy for the future 🌟 Let’s explore these metrics further, including how they impact your team and practical steps to use them for planning 🚀
community.atlassian.com - Ineffective communication affects nearly half of all workers, presenting a common challenge: leadership messages that aren’t delivered clearly or efficiently. Improving top-down communication is essential to aligning everyone with the company’s goals and fostering collective progress. This article delves into what top-down communication entails, its common obstacles, and effective strategies for improvement.
keystepstosuccess.com - Some time ago, there was a webinar recorded by VersionOne: How to use SAFe® to Deliver Value at Enterprise Scale Q&A Discussion with Dean Leffingwell). If you fast-forward to about 23 min, 20 seconds into the recording, you will hear the following statement: “…We don’t typically mess with your organizational structure because that is a pretty big deal…”
This statement somewhere puzzled me. While graphic representation of SAFe framework is nowhere short of supporting organizational complexity, I was still under impression that organizational design improvements/simplification are included in SAFe teaching. To me, an ability to influence first-degree system variables, such as Organizational Structure, is critical. Without this ability, any attempt to improve organizational agility and system dynamics would be short-term and limited. Even such important second-degree system variables, as organizational culture, values, norms, behaviors, policies, agile engineering practices usually bring limited results if organizational structure remains unchanged.
community.atlassian.com - We all know that it is important to stay ahead of the competition. However, it requires more than just maintaining the status quo. More specifically, it demands continuous innovation.
But then, having great ideas is not enough; organizations need a structured way to manage these ideas and turn them into actionable initiatives. This is where idea management comes into play.
Idea management is the systematic process of capturing, evaluating, prioritizing, and implementing ideas within an organization. It transforms the creative insights of employees, customers, and stakeholders into practical solutions that drive growth and success.
entrepreneur.com - How much attention should you pay to your employee attendance? Managers should explore alternative approaches that allow them to oversee their teams while empowering them.
Businesses increasingly adopt remote or hybrid work models to address contemporary health, safety and lifestyle priorities. Fewer and fewer managers link their employees' performance exclusively to their physical attendance and desk presence.
They have a point — there's convincing proof that granting employees flexibility can boost productivity compared to rigid 9-to-5 schedules. But what does this mean for managers? Can they simply let their teams run wild without any oversight? If attendance is an outdated measure of productivity, should managers completely disregard it?
entrepreneur.com - Here's something I've always believed: the better you know your team members, the easier it is to give them the support and freedom they need to be successful in their work.
At my last company, all of my direct reports were with me for at least eight years. We went through a significant portion of our lives together. My team members lost family members, had legal issues and fertility issues, got married, moved and divorced, and I saw it all. I also saw how all these things affected their performance in the office — some were temporary changes, while others were forever.
atlassian.com - Any product manager will tell you miscommunications are the bane of their existence. While developing a brand new product from scratch is one of the most exhilarating things a software team can do – it comes with a healthy set of lows (mostly due to communication mishaps). Gliffy just experienced these peaks and valleys while building a software tool to help teams add a visual element to Jira. We learned a thing or two along the way that we thought could help others and wanted to share them with the Atlassian community.
