Praise public and long, blame private and quick!

Some time ago, I was working as a project coach. Everything was fine, I was working with a great team, iterations were delivered on time.
Their was a small problem in the company. One person did not deliver on time. The person was nice, but he constantly under delivered.
I proposed to the CEO to [...]

War for talent: CheaperTalentHypothesis

I completely agree with Martin Fowler on this one. Better programmers out perform worse once. (And that is why they are cheaper in the end.)
It’s a very nice example of More is less.
Maybe one slightly change to his article: in an truely agile team, when the better programmers pair with the lesser ones, they will [...]

7 tips to compensate your agile team…

George Dinwiddie wrote about agile compensation yesterday. I agree with the idea’s he is writing about, I don’t agree with the link he points to. That compensation list is all about personal compensation. In fact some of them kill team momentum. So I wrote my own compensating tips.
A good team compensation:

is Value based
I think a [...]