InfoQ Articles

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Testability can enable teams to make changes to their code bases without requiring extensive regression testing. To build testability, team members must collaborate and leverage each other's unique skills.

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InfoQ Articles

MARCH 5, 2021

Paying attention to ethical issues, diversity and inclusion, tech for good, employee experience and psychological safety are important. We see what's needed for good remote and the impact of bad remote bad, how management practices are evolving and the importance of people skills for technologists.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 31, 2022

They maintain the proper relations with the employees and ensure the safety and healthy environment for the employees, which is in compliance with the labor laws of the land. HR management is a multidisciplinary subject that studies various fields like psychology, management, communication, and sociology.

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InfoQ Articles

JULY 12, 2021

This article focuses on feedback with regards to a plan or proposal - ways to make it easier to give and receive feedback, so the psychological safety of the team can increase. By Roy Marriott.

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InfoQ Articles

AUGUST 6, 2021

Psychological safety in teams is key. We know TechDebt is bad; chances are HumanDebt is worse, and once you’ve seen it, you can’t “unsee” or ignore it. What is now needed is a focus on the humans who do the work. By Duena Blomstrom.

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InfoQ Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At QCon Plus November 2021, Nora Jones, CEO and founder of Jeli, talked about how to build production readiness reviews (PRR) with emphasis on context and psychological safety. Her talk focused on the particulars of a PRR process that relates to incidents. By Nora Jones.

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Cprime

JANUARY 2, 2024

How does psychological safety affect metric reporting in Agile? – Psychological safety ensures that team members feel comfortable reporting accurate metrics without the fear of retribution, which is crucial for genuine assessment and continuous improvement within Agile teams.

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InfoQ Articles

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Team performance is dependent on safety, teamwork and ongoing learning. Clarity in roles, psychological safety, breaking bad habits and constantly learning are critical to enabling high performance. By Liana Martirosyan.

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APRIL 30, 2021

This includes setting strategic organizational goals, cultivating psychological safety, and treating your culture as a product. A recent Software Delivery Leadership Forum panel discussion shared approaches and tactics for creating a successful DevOps culture. By Shaaron A Alvares.

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Clarasys

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Now is the time to embrace psychological safety . It may seem counterintuitive, but the pandemic may actually have increased the feeling of psychological safety within the workplace. Key ways to improve psychological safety include asking for feedback, being open about failure, and ensuring everyone has a voice.

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Cprime

APRIL 27, 2023

In developing a culture that supports Lean-Agile ways of working , an effective leader will focus on fostering deep respect for people, emotional empathy, and psychological safety. Psychological Safety Leaders with strong emotional intelligence create a workplace and environment that embodies psychological safety.

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BA Brew

MARCH 24, 2023

looking beyond labels; trust and psychological safety in the workplace; strategies for the individual; the 3 components of ADHD and more. Topics discussed include: What is Neurodiversity?; AssistKD provides training, apprenticeships and consultancy services throughout the UK and internationally.

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Growing Agile

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As facilitators, we create a space of psychological safety, where our team can speak about what happened, how they feel and how they can improve. Retrospectives are my favourite scrum event. It is also the one I find most difficult, both as a facilitator and a participant.

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Agile Velocity

MARCH 8, 2023

The culture of an organization can also influence how psychologically safe a team feels in changing their way of working. The organization’s response may be slow, uncertain, and unexpected at times as the initial stages of any transformation are chaotic.

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Clarasys

JUNE 10, 2022

For me, the most important concepts are; willingness to learn and innovate, being open to trying something untested, adopting an iterative approach, cultivating a feedback culture, and most importantly psychological safety. Psychological safety. Psychological safety at work inspires creativity and ideas.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While technology has offered numerous benefits and conveniences, this particular development raises ethical, social, and psychological questions that deserve careful consideration. Psychological Effects Psychologists have expressed concerns about the psychological effects of long-term engagement with AI girlfriends.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, and without getting into deep psychological explorations, it’s pretty clear that the strong communities that have been (rightly) built up around these identities might make them vulnerable to being taken advantage of. The reasons why this is the case are complicated.

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Cprime

APRIL 5, 2021

This should be expected, since we as human beings generally don’t like change, because change disrupts equilibrium and introduces risk to our sense of security and safety. Agile Development relies on the entire team to hold each other accountable and have the confidence (and psychology safety) to bring up issues as early as possible.

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Growing Agile

MAY 6, 2020

Consider psychological safety in your retros, you could ask – What is one thing we could do to make this safer? This way you can create opportunities for people to add their voice if they’ve been quiet.

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Cprime

APRIL 18, 2022

You can help this by reinforcing positive behaviors and avoiding penalizing mistakes; this will help build psychological safety that opens the door to the development of a growth mindset. This is another symptom of lack of psychological safety, which you can help to build. Does your team prefer to “lone wolf”?

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Cprime

APRIL 11, 2022

Respects psychological safety – Security and safety are at the core of our existence as human beings. Every person reacts to change in his/her unique ways due to the unique experiences and perspectives that each of us possess. This means that to mobilize a team/group of people, we need to establish a connection somehow.

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Userzoom

MARCH 27, 2018

There’s a darn good reason why there are so many PSYCHOLOGY+UX articles floating around. User experience design has its conceptual roots in cognitive and behavioural psychology. Not pseudo-psychology like “how the color green makes people feel,” but real, scientific principles to elevate your UX design practice. Oh, and me?

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GAVS Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

Cultivate Psychological Safety Creating a safe space where individuals feel comfortable sharing their ideas, even if they differ from the majority, is essential. Start looking at everyone with same glass, put your perspective aside and listen. This is the fist and crucial step towards recognizing and mitigating these biases.

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GAVS Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

Building a Strong and Resilient Organization Inclusive leadership fosters trust, collaboration, and psychological safety within teams. A study by Adecco Group found that 78% of workers are more likely to stay with a company that promotes diversity and inclusion.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Such a culture requires the teams to be Customer Centric, Collaborative in nature sharing the learning and practices which work in the context and psychological safety for the teams to be tolerant of failures. One of the major factors in this transformation is Culture. Automation.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In this follow-up video, Antelo explains how the formation of stable teams creates psychological safety on the team, increases team predictability, allows stakeholders to forecast more accurately, and results in less employee turnover. If you have any questions on how to form more stable, t-shaped teams, we’d love to help.

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Domo

AUGUST 26, 2020

The trick is in ensuring that anxiety isn’t exacerbated by a desire to assign blame, which is much more likely to happen if employees don’t feel like their needs for safety have been met, that their employer hasn’t demonstrated a desire to care, that they’ve been distanced from the process that makes decisions.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The pair discuss what makes a high-performing team, why high-performing teams need psychological safety, how to facilitate and how to approach managing high-performing teams. High-performing teams need psychological safety. I guess interested to see how you would recommend facilitating that kind of psychological safety.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Doing so creates psychological safety among the team. When a middle manager flexes their empathy skills, it becomes much easier for them to stay in tune with their teams’ needs and protect their sense of safety. Employees feel free to speak their minds, knowing their opinions and voices will be heard.

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Tableau

APRIL 7, 2021

It’s a reminder about the role culture plays in organizational success; how a fail-fast culture can drive innovation or how psychological safety can improve employee well-being and productivity, for example. To me, the phrase is more than an old adage. These topics have risen to the boardroom in recent years, and rightfully so.

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Agile Business Consortium

MARCH 15, 2021

Psychological safety for men and women at work. Ability to impact and create awareness in the media. Greater understanding and research into the impact of gender discrimination. What challenges could be ahead? Breaking down bias. Increasing movements against inclusivity. What may be holding us back from reaching that future?

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Cprime

MARCH 19, 2021

This should be expected, since we as human beings generally don’t like change, because change disrupts equilibrium and introduces risk to our sense of security and safety. Change is hard but management support can provide the psychological safety that your need must have in order to take a risk and do things differently.

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Data Pine

MARCH 6, 2023

You can make these surveys anonymous to ensure psychological safety and encourage candid feedback. When it comes to getting feedback from employees about how you can improve their workplace experience, pulse surveys (mentioned earlier) are a quick and easy way to gather real, actionable insights.

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Cprime

JANUARY 29, 2021

The fact is that many people are not comfortable being put in the spotlight for a number of reasons; they may not yet possess the confidence or psychological safety to be successful in that position. Encourage transparency – Sometimes we, as Agile change leaders, assume that our people prefer transparency.

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Tableau

APRIL 7, 2021

It’s a reminder about the role culture plays in organizational success; how a fail-fast culture can drive innovation or how psychological safety can improve employee well-being and productivity, for example. To me, the phrase is more than an old adage. These topics have risen to the boardroom in recent years, and rightfully so.

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EBG Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

By using the structure of a retrospective, which includes setting the stage with safety (See sidebar “Structure for a Retrospective”), a skilled and neutral facilitator can transition a team to become a high-performing product team. Product leadership is about setting a safe environment for curiosity and transparency.

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Domo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you can build an environment of psychological safety , where people feel comfortable speaking up, then they can take ideas that aren’t polished and continue to iterate until they are,” he asserted. Donald, whose firm, TreeHive Strategy , offers workshops on innovation strategy, agreed.

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