It's a game on behaviours in agile world

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4. TableOfContents
STARTI NG WI TH A
METAPHOR
PERSONAS &
BEHAVIOURS
LET ’S T RY A GA ME
DEBR IEF ING &
CLOSI NG
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INTRO
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6. BA SED ON MARIO M OREIRA’S WORK
StartingWithA
Metaphor
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01
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7. THAT’S HOW I STARTED
WITH AGILE
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8. PurposeOfThisGame
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UNDERSTANDI NG
THE BASIC
PRI NCIPLES OF
THE AG ILE
CULT UR E A ND
UNDE RSTANDING
THE IMPACT OF
BE HAVIOUR I N
AGILE

9. Impact of this
metaphor

10. THE CHICKEN ONLY GIVES
THEIR EG GS
PIGS H AVE TO PUT TH EIR FL ESH ON THE
TAB LE
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12. BA SED ON MARIO M OREIRA’S WORK
Personas&
Behaviours
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02
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13. Pigs
• They are involved, engaged to
the project. In Scrum, it’s the
purpose of the Scrum Team
(Delivery Team, Scrum Master
and Product Owner).
• They are committed to the
work. They are working in a
pigpen with other pigs who
love their work.
• When Agility is well set, they
are all willing to put they
« flesh-on-the-set » each day
because they feel ownership
of the work.
• They are assertive and
accountable for the success of
the project and have a majority
(if not all) of their performance
goals linked directly to the
success of the project and
their specific Agile team.
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14. • They come and go on the
project.
• While chickens are mostly
helpful, because they are
contributing their eggs, they
don’t always understand the
full context because they are
n o t a d e d i c a t e d t e a m
member.
• So occasionally they may
accidentally contribute a
rotten egg.
• They are not accountable for
the success of the project,
although they may have a
s m a l l p o r t i o n o f t h e i r
performance goals linked to
the success of the project.
Chicken
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15. Foxes
• They like to stealthily move
into and through the team
seeing who has certain skills
and ideas.
• Then they like to steal not
only resources (Agile team
members) for their own
teams, but they also steal
ideas.
• They are not necessarily
negative, because they are
often so quiet in their
manipulative work.
• They are dedicated to their
own success.
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16. Seagulls
• They like to fly around the
project and not really
contribute in any manner.
• They enjoy “talking” (mostly
hearing themselves speak)
and pretend they are adding
value, but they are only
annoying the pigs (Agile team
members).
• Often, they like to swoop in
so it can look like they are
involved (and they’ll tell others
this).
• They are often quite negative,
squawk a lot in a “know it all”
manner, and often poop on
people and their ideas.
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17. Rats
• They are deceiver types who
will use the trust of the team
to gain insight into topics so
they can then “rat” on what is
going on to others.
• Often on Agile teams, they
are really deceivers because
they are really anti-Agile or
just plain negative people.
• T h e y o f t e n k n o w t h e
decisions that are made
based on certain contexts
that the team is in, but will
twist the truth in order to
bring the project down.
• It is important to identify
these deceivers as quickly as
possible and get them off the
team.
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18. Cats
• They are a lazy type on an
Agile team that really do not
pitch in but instead like to
sleep instead.
• They are almost purposefully
not assertive, have been
used to just “getting by” on
projects for years, and are
not really interested in
feeling ownership of the
work.
• They typically neither
positive nor negative and
simply like to be left alone.
• The other team members
will begin to notice this
behaviour and realise they
are not really interested in
becoming part of the team.
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19. • They are command-and-
control types who think they
can continue to tell their folks
what to do even though they
are dedicated to their Agile
teams.
• Sometimes referred to as
bullies, they charge right into
the team and attempt to direct
them to their own work and
often deviate the team from
building product functionality.
• Ty p i c a l l y, t h e y a re n o t
interested in the Agile mindset
because they see it as a
challenge to their authority
(technical or managerial) or
don’t really understand or care
about the business benefits of
Agile, but instead want to
maintain their own status.
Bulls
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20. ShepherdDog
• And finally no farm is
c o m p l e t e w i t h o u t t h e
Shepherd Dog.
• However, on an Agile farm, it
cannot be just any Shepherd
Dog but instead a benevolent
Shepherd Dog who is good
to his animals and ensure the
animals have what they need
to grow and prosper.
• The Agile Animal Shepherd
Dog encourages, inspires,
a n d a l l o w s f o r t e a m
a u t o n o m y a n d s e l f
organisation.
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22. PLAY A ND WORK I T OUT!
Let’sTryA
Game
01
03
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24. LES SONS LEARNED
Debriefing&
Closing
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04
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25. • let’s make 3 teams
• each team seats around a table
• come to each team member with « animals »
cards and ask to choose an animal to play
• during 5 minutes, each team has to draw a
landscape with 5 flowers in different colours.
RulesOfTheGame-Round1
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26. CHECK
THE R ESULTS
DISCU SS
FINDINGS
TEA MMATES
TRY TO DI SCOVER
• According to the « animal » played, you will have a result or not.
• For Round 1, try to identify who played what animal.
• Make it fun!
…WhatHappenedAfter 5
Minutes?
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27. • Let’s keep the 3 teams
• Each team seats around a table
• Come to each team member with « animals » cards and
assign a « role » to each of them.
• Try to have Team 1(Bulls, Seagulls and Chicken); Team 2
(Rats, Cats and Foxes); Team 3 (Pigs and Shepherd Dog)
• During 5 minutes, each team has to draw a landscape
with 5 flowers in different colours
RulesOfTheGame-Round2
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28. CHECK
THE R ESULTS
DISCU SS
FINDINGS
TEA M MATES
TRY TO DI SCOVER
• from each team, team members tried to identify who played what
animal
• we analysed the outcome of the round
• we tried to figure patterns out from each team behaviour
• Team 3 produced a great landscape
• Team 2 produced…. nothing
• Team 1 produced … nothing
…WhatHappenedAfter 5
Minutes?
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29. • Make 1 big team
• Come to each team member with
« animals » cards and assign a « role »
to each of them
• During 5 minutes, the big team has to
draw or make a landscape with 5
flowers in different colours
RulesOfTheGame-Round3
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30. CHECK
THE R ESULTS
DISCU SS
FINDINGS
TEA M MATES
TRY TO DI SCOVER
• from each team, team members tried to identify who played what
animal
• we analysed the outcome of the round
• we tried to figure patterns out from each team behaviour
• all the behaviours have been amplified and stress has emerged
• we discovered that all « animal behaviours » have been amplified in a
large team and it was complicated to keep permanently a « pig »
position.
…WhatHappenedAfter 5
Minutes?
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32. …ForWhatIsItGood
For?
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40. Credits
• based on Mario Moreira’s Agile Animal Farm
• http://www.pd4pic.com/animals-bat-drawing-
cartoon-page-farm-landscape.html
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