I have enjoyed working successfully and extensively with remote teams for years now. There are many challenges to overcome, and this article does not address the logistical issues; rather it focuses on the team building factors that are the core of success. Much of this is good for all teams everywhere, but it is essential to do this on an extra level with remote teams.

Psychological safety has become the center of many conversations around the world. But is it a fad, or just another buzzword? Firsthand, I emphatically believe that it is the core of building a successful team. I’ve worked with groups that were struggling, silent, not sharing ideas, following orders, miserable, with a huge turnover rate, terrible quality of deliverables, and working overtime on projects that were deemed as failing. With a lot of love, respect, and caring about the team and the humans that the team is made of, I have watched them grow and form into powerful entities full of innovative thoughts and successful sprints. Working less, they produced more than they ever had before and became leading teams in their space.

A Product Owner is constantly balancing expectations from the business, the team, and users. It’s a tough job. You might feel you are doing all the right things, but your team is just not responding. If you feel you are not getting the best results from your team, or perhaps you sense they just don’t like working with you, you might benefit from improving your emotional EQ.

These four elements of Product Management create a basis for a Product Mindset. Learn how the Growth Mindset, the Agile Mindset, and the Product Mindset intersect. Explore how you can go further, and what courageous questions you might not be asking.

There's no shortage of reasons why agile transformations fail, but you can avoid many of the pitfalls by educating yourself on common issues and preparing your business for potential problems.

If your organization has decided to utilize an agile scaling technique it is important to understand both how to implement these changes and how to test the implementation.

We gathered together some genius analogies to draw parallels between real life and the Scrum framework. This is a continuation of analogies from Part One.

Have you ever tried to explain how a Scrum concept works in a way that people can relate with? We find the easiest way to simply explain scrum is to use analogies that fit into everyone’s everyday knowledge.

Time again, when working with product teams building software applications, the big question always is, “When will it be done?”

Motivational Interviewing is a goal-oriented way of having a collaborative conversation with a person or group, while paying particular attention to the language of change.

As agile coaches, if we don’t focus on making relationship management an integral part of our teachings, we are doing our team a major disservice.