Restructuring the Agile way www.PairCoaching.net Yves Hanoulle PairCoaching.net

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Yves Hanoulle

Agile Project Manager

Coaching & Consultancy Services on agile & Team practices

Founder of PairCoaching.net

Invented multiple games

Leadership Game

Help my team is in War Game

Communication game

PairCoaching.net Agile Game

Certified McCarthy BootCamp instructor

Looking for talking at conferences

Father of Joppe, Bent, Geike

http://www.linkedin.com/in/YvesHanoulle

http://paircoaching.wordpress.com

http://www.twitter.com/YvesHanoulle

http://www.Flickr.com/People/YvesHanoulle

http://www.PairCoaching.net

Situation Large team inside a large organisation Divided in four sub team’s Blue, Red, Green, Yellow Yellow sub-team Consists mainly out of juniors Is scapegoated by other team’s Is scapegoated by internal customers I was working there about a month

Large team inside a large organisation

Divided in four sub team’s

Blue, Red, Green, Yellow

Yellow sub-team

Consists mainly out of juniors

Is scapegoated by other team’s

Is scapegoated by internal customers

I was working there about a month

What did I do? Had a talk with the yellow sub-team about their performance Told the whole team to cancel all their plans the afternoon Scheduled meeting rooms the whole afternnoon Started wih a 1 hour discussion about the problems Come up with answers in groups of 3 or 4 (20 minutes) Regrouped everybody

Had a talk with the yellow sub-team about their performance

Told the whole team to cancel all their plans the afternoon

Scheduled meeting rooms the whole afternnoon

Started wih a 1 hour discussion about the problems

Come up with answers in groups of 3 or 4 (20 minutes)

Regrouped everybody

Team Solution We only need 3 groups

We only need 3 groups

Problem HOW will we reorg now?

HOW will we reorg now?

My Scary idea Form new sub team’s by walking around for 20 minutes NO talking NO up front rules Feel your inner voice, act accordingly

Form new sub team’s by walking around for 20 minutes

NO talking

NO up front rules

Feel your inner voice, act accordingly

Question: How will we know we are good distributed?  We want rules No you don’t. If it does not feel good for you, you move.

How will we know we are good distributed?

 We want rules

No you don’t. If it does not feel good for you, you move.

After 5 minutes Please form groups so I can see them

After 10 minutes Are you happy? No I’m not Then keep moving Yves, you have to do this! No I don’t. That is what self organizing teams are about! I will not take decisions for you, but help you taking decisions! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click ! Click !

After 15 minutes Are you now happy? No I’m still not happy... Then keep moving But I can’t change it... You are allowed to move one other person

After 15 minutes

After 20 minutes Are you happy? The problem for me is that the yellow team still sticks together Wait a minute, I can see that that is the result. You have all been moving. Don’t blame just them for that. Let’s take a 5 minute break and then retry. Taking that last remark into account

A lot later Are you happy? Yes? Yes? Yes. Yes! We don’t have a french speaking problem in our team Is that a problem? No but we said... That is why I said no rules...

End of the day...

Conclusion The team came up with a solution They are now much more self-organising as before If I would have taken the decision, they would have been less self-organising as before Make sure the team realizes the regrouping is needed It is a compromise It is much better then what I came up with It’s better accepted then when I would have done it At the end I was full of energy and exhausted at the same time

The team came up with a solution

They are now much more self-organising as before

If I would have taken the decision, they would have been less self-organising as before

Make sure the team realizes the regrouping is needed

It is a compromise

It is much better then what I came up with

It’s better accepted then when I would have done it

At the end I was full of energy and exhausted at the same time

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