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ARTICLE: Attack of the Fifty-Foot Favors
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: When your boss constantly has you doing favors for another group, it can get in the way of fulfilling your own responsibilities. Find out how defining your work mission to your manager and illustrating how "small" favors potentially cut into company revenue can help to get everyone on the same page.
ARTICLE: Held Hostage by a Prima Donna
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: What to do when your MVP is destroying team productivity.
Date Posted: Feb 8, 2006 |
ARTICLE: No More Middleman
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: Every manager has a story to tell. Find out how one management professional tackles a fictional dilemma. The story may be made up, but the solutions are tried and true. In this installment, Esther Derby tells you how to stop playing "Manager in the Middle" and get your team members talking.
Date Posted: Oct 14, 2005 |
ARTICLE: e-Talk Radio: Derby, Esther, 4 January 2001
Author(s): Carol Dekkers/Esther Derby
Summary: Ms. Dekkers and Ms. Derby talk about various management issues (e.g., promotions based on technical skills instead of people management skills, and the importance of interpersonal skills training for managers) and modeling organizational change.
Date Posted: Jan 4, 2001 |
BOOK: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Author: Esther Derby/Diana Larsen
Pages: 170 Published: 2006
Description: See how to mine the experience of your software development team continually throughout the life of the project. The tools and recipes in this book will help you uncover and s...More
BOOK: Behind Closed Doors
Author: Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby
Pages: 167 Published: 2005
Description: Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve those results. Great man...More
COLUMN: Eight Reasons Retrospectives Fail
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: Retrospectives work for most teams, yet some teams are convinced that retrospectives will never work for them. When Esther Derby came across several of these teams for which retrospectives had failed, she questioned why and discovered eight common reasons for those failures. In this week's column, she details these eight reasons and offers solutions for each one.
COLUMN: Is Collaboration the Right Way to Work?
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: Do you manage a team or a group? How can you tell the difference, and is it important to differentiate the two? In this week's column, Esther Derby explains that identifying your associates as one or the other is paramount to how they should be managed.
COLUMN: Collaboration: It's more than facilitated meetings
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: Esther Derby has noticed something lately, namely that when people write about collaboration, they discuss facilitated meetings. Well-run meetings that encourage participation and building consensus are certainly valuable, but there's more to collaboration than just well-run meetings. In this week's column, Esther explains that true collaboration assumes shared responsibility and shared ownership and boosts creativity and learning.
COLUMN: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: Retrospectives are a great way for teams to inspect and adapt their methods and teamwork, and they're a great way for teams to build on success and learn from hard times. Retrospectives take a critical look at what happened during an iteration (or part of a project) without being critical of people. But not everyone realizes that, says Esther Derby, so in this week's column she outlines how to approach retrospectives in the most productive way.
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