Comments for Teams Blog http://www.teamsblog.biz Sharing Best Practices for Your Teams Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:09:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Workplace Bullies May Become Employers’ Legal Problems by Jim Morgan http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=547&cpage=1#comment-714 Jim Morgan Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:09:06 +0000 http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=547#comment-714 Professor, I'm honored you would take the time to read the post and grateful for the kind words. More importantly, I appreciate the important work you do. Keep it up, and thank you! Professor, I’m honored you would take the time to read the post and grateful for the kind words. More importantly, I appreciate the important work you do. Keep it up, and thank you!

]]> Comment on Workplace Bullies May Become Employers’ Legal Problems by Jim Morgan http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=547&cpage=1#comment-713 Jim Morgan Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:06:52 +0000 http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=547#comment-713 Thank you so much for the tweets! Thank you so much for the tweets!

]]> Comment on Workplace Bullies May Become Employers’ Legal Problems by David Yamada http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=547&cpage=1#comment-712 David Yamada Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:30:01 +0000 http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=547#comment-712 Jim, Thanks much for putting on a spotlight on workplace bullying and for mentioning my work. You have a talent for packing a lot of info into one post! I hope it is of use to your readers. Sincerely, David Yamada Suffolk University Law School Jim,

Thanks much for putting on a spotlight on workplace bullying and for mentioning my work. You have a talent for packing a lot of info into one post! I hope it is of use to your readers.

Sincerely,
David Yamada
Suffolk University Law School

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]]> Comment on Money as Motivator: The Gap between Managers and Employees by Jim Morgan http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=388&cpage=1#comment-515 Jim Morgan Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:40:47 +0000 http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=388#comment-515 You're quite right on both points, Susan. Academic researchers frequently comment on the difficulty of reaching low-income workers. I think this sentence in the post supports your position: "Only after the typical person has enough to cover basic needs, plus a bit left over, does extra money lose a lot of its power to motivate." People working at minimum wage or less do not earn enough to cover basic needs. Thank you for your thoughtful comment. You’re quite right on both points, Susan. Academic researchers frequently comment on the difficulty of reaching low-income workers. I think this sentence in the post supports your position: “Only after the typical person has enough to cover basic needs, plus a bit left over, does extra money lose a lot of its power to motivate.” People working at minimum wage or less do not earn enough to cover basic needs. Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

]]> Comment on Money as Motivator: The Gap between Managers and Employees by Susan Crandall http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=388&cpage=1#comment-514 Susan Crandall Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:53:37 +0000 http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=388#comment-514 I am increasingly convinced that these surveys do not include the 25% of the workforce that earn minimum wage (less likely to be reached by phone, so sample not appropriately stratified)...straight rates of pay are higher motivators for these employees. I am increasingly convinced that these surveys do not include the 25% of the workforce that earn minimum wage (less likely to be reached by phone, so sample not appropriately stratified)…straight rates of pay are higher motivators for these employees.

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]]> Comment on The Science of Agile Teamwork by Jim Morgan http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=226&cpage=1#comment-204 Jim Morgan Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:59:46 +0000 http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=226#comment-204 Excellent question, Andrew. In effect the answer is yes, although I haven't done enough research to know which came first. At the very least Agile incorporates the theory and parts of the practice of rolling wave as I understand it. As I've seen Agile/Scrum used, and as it was presented in the speech I covered, Agile is agnostic about long-term milestones and plans. Rolling wave takes a stab at telling the client what features will be released when. This is a comparative strength of rolling-wave for fixed-price contracts or clients who insist on knowing what they will get by a given date and how much it will cost. Agile in its pure form would not work in those cases. Also, after the initial product backlog is created, Agile works in no larger than four-week chunks, whereas some rolling-wave advocates are willing to look out in some details months ahead. That said, I suspect there are organizations that have successfully combined the two. If any readers have examples, I hope they'll provide us the links. Thank you for asking, Jim Excellent question, Andrew. In effect the answer is yes, although I haven’t done enough research to know which came first. At the very least Agile incorporates the theory and parts of the practice of rolling wave as I understand it. As I’ve seen Agile/Scrum used, and as it was presented in the speech I covered, Agile is agnostic about long-term milestones and plans. Rolling wave takes a stab at telling the client what features will be released when. This is a comparative strength of rolling-wave for fixed-price contracts or clients who insist on knowing what they will get by a given date and how much it will cost. Agile in its pure form would not work in those cases. Also, after the initial product backlog is created, Agile works in no larger than four-week chunks, whereas some rolling-wave advocates are willing to look out in some details months ahead.

That said, I suspect there are organizations that have successfully combined the two. If any readers have examples, I hope they’ll provide us the links.

Thank you for asking,
Jim

]]> Comment on The Science of Agile Teamwork by Andrew http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=226&cpage=1#comment-203 Andrew Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:31:13 +0000 http://www.teamsblog.biz/?p=226#comment-203 I've been reading some of the posts/info on Agile. Is this a repackaging of rolling-wave methodologies? I’ve been reading some of the posts/info on Agile.

Is this a repackaging of rolling-wave methodologies?

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