Are you part of a dysfunctional team?

1 Feb 200915 May 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ 1 Comment

In the last post, I discussed the characteristics of a dysfunctional team, based on what the book talks about as well as based on my own experiences. In this post, I will present some of the lessons learned for me about how to identify the fact that you are part of a dysfunctional team. These … Continue reading Are you part of a dysfunctional team?

Characteristics of dysfunctional teams

30 Jan 20093 Jul 2011 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ 5 Comments

[Credit: This post refers to a book by Patrick Lencioni, one of the most influencial books I have read in my life. From Wikipedia: 'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a bestselling[1] business book by consultant and speaker Patrick Lencioni. It describes the many pitfalls that teams face as they seek to "row together"'] … Continue reading Characteristics of dysfunctional teams

Characteristics of High-performance Teams

28 Jan 20091 Feb 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ Leave a comment

In this post, I would like to discuss about characteristics of high-performance teams as defined in The Wisdom of Teams. For more detailed review of the book that I wrote sometime back, see here: Part-I, Part-II and Part-III. The book defines a team as follows (my formatting) A small number of people with complementary skills … Continue reading Characteristics of High-performance Teams

Is Annual Performance Review a waste of time?

22 Jan 20091 Feb 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ Leave a comment

Recently someone forwarded me this post about the fact that Performance reviews are a big fat waste of time. This is a long post talking about why it is so and proposes that we should just lose them. Here are the reasons the post mentions as to why this is the case: Everybody hates them … Continue reading Is Annual Performance Review a waste of time?

Performance Measurement – Team or individual?

10 Jan 200815 May 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ Leave a comment

Among many advantages of agile development is the one which produces efficiency by squeezing away the cost of interaction between various members (roles) of a development team (for example, QA doesn't need to raise the bug and wait for it to be fixed and then verify it, he/she can walk up to the dev and … Continue reading Performance Measurement – Team or individual?