I’ve been doing agile coaching for over two decades. If there were a Top 5 question I get when doing organizational and leadership coaching, it’s—
How do I set up my teams? Vertical, horizontal, hybrid.
What exactly is an x-functional team?
What about distributed team dynamics?
Are the roles full-time? Or can I share everyone?
How do I handle shared, service-oriented, or platform teams?
For a long time, I wished for a solid reference that I could send to folks when they have these sorts of “teaming” related questions.
Well, the good news is now I do, but it’s not one book. It’s a triplet of books.
More than a few years ago, I visited a client in Greensboro, NC. I did a little consulting there, but it really wasn’t a longer-term gig.
What stood out to me, after all of these years, is that folks could bring their dogs into work. And everyone seemed to do just that.
There were dogs roaming free in the halls.
There were dog play areas.
There were dogs at their owner’s desks.
And those that didn’t have dogs were playing with others dogs.
And yes, there was the occasional “doggie accident” ;-)
It was a wonderful environment. Instead of feeling like an office space, it felt like a home that I was visiting. A comfortable home where the family loved their pets.
