Improve together
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This slide deck accompanies a workshop I ran at Agile India in March 2017. The majority of the audience were scrummasters, agile coaches, team managers etc. It leans on the Heart of Agile meme. The workshop focused on two activities; 1. thinking about better than best practices so that we can escape the tyranny of other people's patterns. 2. Getting people to reflect on the experience of telling/being told versus collaborating on a problem.
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Improve together
- 2. Featured Project: Sydney Opera House, Australia Connecting people to build the world
- 3. Connecting people to build the world Project name: Marina Bay Sands | Hospitality & Community Singapore Project name: Panama Canal Expansion Project | Aviation & Port US$3.2 billion | Panama
- 5. What is the Heart of Agile?
- 6. How does your team improve? What are the limits to what you can do? Have you set your sights high enough? We are in this together in everything. We need to improve as a team, as well as deliver work products together. Furthermore, best practices lead to dead ends and bad practices. Don’t seek a standard pattern that will drag your team and work towards mediocre. Seek to do better than what you do today. Never stop seeking. Think mindfully about your situation and work to improve from there. A key thing about this talk is that I won't be telling you how to do your job better. I'll be helping you do that yourself more effectively.
- 8. Better Best
- 11. Improve Together
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- 16. Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. - Thucydides
- 18. one small step
- 19. Inquire Pitch
- 20. Inquire Pitch
- 21. Inquire Pitch
- 22. Hi, I’m Craig Brown You can follow me on Twitter as @brown_note Or at my blog BetterProjects.net
- 24. Featured Project: Marina Bay Sands Casino Resort, Singapore Connecting people to build the world aconex.com/careers Come work with us. We are awesome Craig Brown, Agile India 2017
- 25. Activity 1 1. Write 2-3 good agile practices on a card. 2. Pick one, describe why it is good. 3. Flip the card. 4. Come up with a better idea than the first. Activity 2 Pitch you idea to your neighbour. Make them understand how good it is, how and why they should adopt it. Activity 3 1. Ask your other neighbour what their idea. See if/how you could use it. 2. Explore what problem you are addressing and what else you could do to address it. 2+3+3=8 5+5=10 15 3 minutes of sharing examples Questions: • How did each interaction feel? • How well did you listen in each instance? • Which ideas do you remember best? • Why? • What can we learn from this activity? Workshopnotes
Editor's Notes
- Set the Scene: Why did we come here today to talk about improving together? Who the hell is Aconex?
- We are about connecting people so they can do great work together.
- This is what our company is all about. We help people do this with software and these ideas infuse the way we work as well as being fundamental to our product experience.
- How does your team improve? What are the limits to what you can do? Have you set your sights high enough? We are in this together in everything. We need to improve as a team, as well as deliver work products together. Furthermore, best practices lead to dead ends and bad practices. Don’t seek a standard pattern that will drag your team and work towards mediocre. Seek to do better than what you do today. Never stop seeking. Think mindfully about your situation and work to improve from there. A key thing about this talk is that I won't be telling you how to do your job better. I'll be helping you do that yourself more effectively.
- This is what our company is all about. We help people do this with software and these ideas infuse the way we work as well as being fundamental to our product experience.
- Better trumps best/ Best is a mental dead end. Better is continuous improvmement.
- You need to deliver results today, but you also need to invest some time in preparing for the future.
- Activity 1 – see last slide
- In teams we improve together. If we don’t collaborate on improvements all sorts of problems can occur. It is their change/improvement not mine I misunderstand the method or intent and so don’t really get the improvements we seek We don’t use the wisdom of the whole team and so focus on the wrong things, missing bigger opportunities etc
- You must watch for the power dynamic also. When some consultant comes and takes over, you have both an abrogation of responsibilities by management, and you are then subject to someone who is visiting and doesn’t have to live with the long term consequences of the changes. Are they really right for you? What stopped you from making the changes in the past? Does the team really need fixing? R does management need to work on fixing the environment the team work in?
- A reminder about politics and power.
- Activity 2 parts – pitch your idea to your pair for one small change Inquire about an idea for one small change (it doesn’t have to be on the card
- Keep the improvements small scale. That’s where real improvement is usually made.
- Part 1 – pitch your idea to your partern. Convince them it’s the right thing to do.
- Change partners. Now ask your partner about their idea and see if it is something you could use. Ask lots of questions until you know all you need to.
- Which worked better for you? How did the two conversations feel? Which one is more likely to lead to you getting value?
- Remember to think about the structure of this workshop. What dynamics were going on? What made it work or not work? What type of conversations do you have at work?
- Come work with us. We are awesome