@thelaggingteam.bsky.social"Nothing's wrong" is the absence of a complaint. Thriving teams say it. So do teams that gave up three months ago, and the dashboard can't tell them apart.
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Your quiet team: thriving, or gave up? One word.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.social"Fine" isn't a lie. It's an answer nobody checked. One better question would have found out.
New Sidebar out today: Fine Is Not a Status.
Your team's last "fine": did anyone check what it was made of? Yes or no.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.social"Do you have any problems?" isn't a hard question. Most people say no.
Katrina L. Coker (The Scrum Mother) on The Lagging Team: Nobody Asked the Team.
What's the last hard question anyone asked your team? One word, or "none."
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@thelaggingteam.bsky.social"That's old news." She had just asked them.
Katrina L. Coker (The Scrum Mother) on the gap between what leadership thinks was settled and what the team still lives with. From Nobody Asked the Team.
What's the old news your team would still name today? One word.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialYou hired them for their judgment. When did anyone last ask for it?
Katrina L. Coker (The Scrum Mother) on The Lagging Team, out today: Nobody Asked the Team.
When did someone last ask your team for its point of view, not its status? This month, or can't remember.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.social"Nobody quit." Top strength on the review. She was proud of it. She also knows what it meant.
Katrina L. Coker (The Scrum Mother), new episode out today: Nobody Asked the Team.
Has "nobody quit" ever been the win on your team? Yes or no.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialThe leader says nothing happened. The team says they delivered. Same organization, same quarter, and both of them are telling the truth. The information never crossed the room.
What's the last thing on your team that never crossed the room? One word.
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Last time your team was called behind, who examined the standard? Someone, or nobody.
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@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialHe got somebody he could say a true thing to, in a building where nobody was saying true things.
That was uncomfortable for me. I felt like I wasn't doing my job.
Does everyone on your team have someone like that? Yes or no.
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@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialA team that's genuinely slow and a team measured against a fantasy produce the same status report. Red. Behind. Slipping.
They look identical. Are the fixes the same?
Your red project — slow, or fantasy? One word.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialHere's what would make me wrong. Don't take my word for it. Go trace the date.
Follow it until you hit a name and a reason, or you run out of people.
Where did your trail end — name and reason, name only, or nobody?
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialBehind is not a fact about the team. It's a comparison: the distance between where you are and a date.
And a date is not a measurement. It's a decision somebody made.
The date your team is behind on — do you know who set it? Yes or no.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialI titled an episode "Stop Blaming the Team." The guest spent an hour defending leaders. I changed it and said I'd learned something.
Then I did it again.
New Sidebar out today.
The mistake you keep making after you've named it? One word.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialNew Sidebar: Nobody Checked Who Set The Date.
Find out who set the date.
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialI asked Chris Sims what a leader should do when the team is behind.
Chris Sims: ask what support that team needs to learn and adapt.
When did you last ask your team what support they need — this week, or can't remember?
@thelaggingteam.bsky.socialHere's the part I had wrong for a long time.
I thought his leadership had made a judgment about him. They hadn't. They were stuck too. All of them. And I didn't see it.
The last person you wrote off — judged, or stuck? One word.