In this episode of With Great People: The Podcast for High-Performance Teams, I interview Arie van Bennekum. Arie is a co-author of the Agile Manifesto and an Agile thought leader at Wemanity Group. …

An interview with Richard Kasperowski on High-Performance Teams Stephen Harrison: Let me introduce Richard Kasperowski. Richard and I worked together a while back and have been friends ever since. Along the way, Richard has become a recognized expert in an interesting and relevant field. SH: Richard, welcome. …

Before it was an app, “slack” was already a useful word. As a verb, it meant to take things easy and even be a bit lazy, but the noun hints at its more exciting possibilities: an empty piece of time or space where unknown things can occur. A bit of…

My students are my best teachers. In a recent High-Performance Team Building™ class, my students asked some great questions. I had to pause, ponder, learn something new, and get back to them after class. Here’s one of those great questions, along with my response. In the book The Five Dysfunctions…

(Originally recorded as a podcast: https://kspr.co/Podcast57) Want to Know More About High-Performance Teams? Hi, friends! Welcome back to With Great People, the podcast for high-performance teams. I’m Richard Kasperowski. Way back in 2020, we did a webinar on high-performance teams in conjunction with the Scrum Alliance. (Thanks, Scrum Alliance friends…

Cue the piano: If you don’t want to see me… I did a full one-eighty, crazy Thinking ‘bout the way I was – from Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now” I did a full one-eighty in my teaching, coaching, and consulting work. As recently as March, I advised clients that if…

In case you missed it, James Shore and I had a chat last January about amazingly great work teams. James is an Agile software development teacher, writer, and consultant. He is the co-author of the book The Art of Agile Development, a seminal work in the Agile community. …

Joanne Stone and I recently had a great conversation about wicked problems. I love the word wicked. It’s a wonderfully positive word in my native New England vernacular. …

Team Communication in Times of Crisis Once upon a time, a very long time ago — also known as “February 2020” — my personal and professional life consisted of being together and communicating with other people face to face. I gave talks at conferences, business coaching sessions in my clients’ offices, and professional training in their…