Category: Teamwork posts

Monthly quote, August 2019

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“The companies are not formed by departments or independent areas. They are systemic realities, and their efficiency is proportional to the harmony between the working modes of the different departments.” Scrum Manager: ‘Temario Troncal I’ Version 2.6.1 – January 2019, Authors of this version: Alexander Menzinsky, Gertrudis López, Juan Palacio, www.scrummanager.net

The four stages of team development according to Bruce W. Tuckman: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing

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Recently, two different speakers in two very different events – David Criado from Vorpalina in this breakfast on Innovation and Humanism , and Carmen Monforte from the ITI at this event of real cases of Scrum application – brought to mention Tuckman’s description of these four stages of team development: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing ….  Read More

Teams. Success. Choreography.

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Almost a month ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Hip Hop competition in Barcelona for the first time. I was very surprised by the ‘megacrew’ category, where really big teams, up to 35 people, filled the stage and moved in an exquisitely synchronized way. Here you can see an example: