Geoff Mazeroff

Business The Most Pressing People Questions Facing Companies Today (via Harvard Business Review) How do you balance your human workforce with automation? What are your plans for remote work? How are you helping ensure employee mental health? How are you…

Business Should You Rehire an Employee Who Left Your Company? (via Harvard Business Review) A study showed there’s no significant change in (1) performance of the re-hire, (2) improvement in their performance over time compared to external or internal hires,…

Agile Scrum Master Panel Discussion @ Clayton Homes I was one of three panelists (Gretchen Node, Arash Farsi); facilitated by Joanna Holbrook. We talked about the Scrum Master role with focuses on inspiration, motivation, tactical tips, and how others can…

Business The Rules of Co-opetition (via Harvard Business Review) Sometimes it makes sense to collaborate with a competitor, because if you don’t the competitor will still cause you problems because they’ve gotten help from someone else. There are also times…

Agile Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation (via Harvard Business Review) Synchronizing and realigning on goals can make you efficient, but that may be at the expense of novelty. Being agile doesn’t inherently make you more innovative. Business 9 Trends That Will…

Agile What Happens When You Use Agile for the Wrong Reasons? (via Mountain Goat Software) It rarely goes well. Don’t just follow the herd; ask yourself why certain things are important to you. (The Five Whys technique is helpful here.)…

(A light week because of the holidays) Career So you want to be a COO (via Software Lead Weekly) The piece is a bit biased by the author’s industry experience, but there are still traits and skills that are highlighted…

Agile So What Does an Agile Coach Actually Do (via Marten den Haring) “…Agile Coaching is an approach towards fostering an organisational shift to improve the work, behaviours, and outcomes in the context of the development of solutions/products; it is…

Business The Cost of a Feature (via Software Lead Weekly) I understand the value of this checklist; however, I wonder how many companies have the luxury of computing all of these things with any degree of accuracy. Additionally, many of…

Agile The Right Way to Think about Cost Savings in Agile (via Leading Agile) Some companies think that bringing in Agile (e.g., Scrum) lets them fire their architects and middle managers to save money. If you have a ball of…