Communication is a key in our day-to-day life, be it professionally or personally, there is always a need to maintain a healthy and open- minded communication with people around you. Communication is an art which brings two individuals closer in the long run while also enabling them to understand each other’s thoughts easily. In our discussion with Jutta Eckstein, we started exploring the significance of communication in teams or organizations. We discussed different aspects of conflicts in communication and using retrospectives for organizational changes.
She brings in her unique experiences about working in teams and how we can address the changes. She also shared her opinion on Retrospective in Agile Processes. We covered initial steps of change which are learning from the situations and decisions to be taken as a team according to Individual experiences. Thus drives us towards organizational change. We also discussed the influence of the environment around us. She briefed us on VUCA conditions(Volatile, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) for organizations and also on sustainability.
Interviewee: Jutta Eckstein(Coach, Consultant, Speaker and Author)
Jutta Eckstein works as an Independent Coach, Consultant and Trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.
Jutta is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has also presented her work. She holds a M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. in Product-Engineering, and a B.A. in Education.
Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)