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Podcast: Troubleshooting Agile
Episode: Greatest Hits : Engagement and Joy in Agile Teams
Description: Due to illness and travel, Jeffrey and Squirrel present one of their greatest hits of the past!
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Squirrel and Jeffrey look at a recent article by Luke Tomas on the "employee engagement industry" (we didn't even know it *was* an industry!) Jeffrey rapidly links this to Brian Marick's idea of Ease and Joy at work and we all agree that engagement, happiness, and joy are all useful, but lagging, indicators of team success - so you can't improve them directly with bigger bonuses or tougher objectives. Instead alignment, focus, and autonomy work to create these results by creating the conditions...