Elephant #24: ignorance
It may be difficult to stop ignoring what shouldn’t be overlooked, basically because by definition we ignore what we ignore.
Read moreFirst season
The first season of this series is composed by short posts aimed to unveil a herd of elephants in the room.
Elephant #23: employees turnover
Organizations with high employees turnover should start wondering if their most skilled employees are those ones who stay or those
Read moreElephant #22: jerks’ culture
Every time you hire or promote a jerk, you’re building a jerks’ culture. You shouldn’t be surprised, then, when your
Read moreElephant #21: waterfall mindset
You can hold all the Scrum “ceremonies” you want and put into place all the (really and allegedly) Agile practices
Read moreElephant #20: discretionary payments
To all those organizations which promise their employees a conspicuous bonus and change it underway with a discretionary (usually conspicuously
Read moreElephant #19: clueless solutions
When people start implementing a solution without having a clue about the business problem they are trying to solve, chances
Read moreElephant #18: barriers to learning
The most powerful barrier to learning (hence to improving) is a strong belief that you already know everything.
Read moreElephant #17: unfeasible continuous improvement
When people settle for mediocrity, you can forget about continuous improvement.
Read moreElephant #16: lack of transparency
A keen interest in removing info from a system is usually a clear symptom of someone’s aversion to transparency.
Read moreElephant #15: cargo cult*
When putting into practice Scrum principles, values and rules, you don’t have to be dogmatic: yet, you need to be
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