Heidi Helfand Archives - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

Heidi Helfand on managing relationships as a way to manage the environment

What is “the system” is a question that we debate every Friday. Heidi’s view is based on her views of systems. We talk about relationships and how we should care and help develop the relationships in the team and the organization as a way to develop “the system”.

About Heidi Helfand

Heidi’s been in the software industry for 17 years and has a masters in teaching English. She has been a part of two successful startups. She was on the initial team that invented gotomeeting and gotowebinar at the first startup. She is currently Principal Agile Coach at AppFolio, Inc. where they create software for property management companies and law firms. She started there in 2007 hired as a Scrum Master – trained by Ken Schwaber and with Pivotal Labs for more than a year. She became a co-active coach along the way and is certified by the International Coach Federation and the Coaches Training Institute. She is currently writing and speaking about Reteaming – that is, how its valid and desirable to have changing teams as opposed to long running, unchanging teams.
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You can also follow Heidi’s blog at: http://www.heidihelfand.com/writing/.

Heidi Helfand on how feedback and focusing on continuous improvement can help teams gain their independence

Teams are growing and evolving all the time. Sticking to them too long may make them dependent on the role of the Scrum Master, so Heidi describes how she defines success around helping teams grow and become independent.

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Heidi Helfand on the need to help teams change: Reteaming

We’ve often heard that teams should be long lived and stable. But what if the advantages or reteaming would be much larger than the disadvantages of changing team composition? In this episode we explore the topic of Reteaming and what Heidi has been developing and discovering that helps teams thrive when they change.

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Heidi Helfand describes the us-vs-them anti-pattern in team work

There are many ways in which teams fail. We must be aware of the anti-patterns so we can detect them before it is too late. In this episode we talk about the us-vs-them anti-pattern that sometimes develops even inside the teams we work with and how we can tackle that as Scrum Masters.

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Heidi Helfand on Command and control Agile

With the drive and motivation to adopt better ways of working we can, sometimes, forget that the adoption process takes time. In this episode we discuss the problems that come with pushing too hard, and what to do about that.