Become a better agile team member
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The document provides tips for becoming a more valuable member of an agile team. It recommends focusing on shared activities rather than signoffs, avoiding covering your own responsibilities, and becoming a "T-shaped" person by gaining expertise in different roles. Specifically, the key points are: 1) Collaborate on all activities like analysis, development, and testing rather than having separate roles and signoffs. 2) Help your colleagues whenever possible to gain new skills and build relationships rather than just completing your own tasks. 3) Develop deep expertise in your own role while also gaining knowledge of other roles to be more flexible and valuable to the team.
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Become a better agile team member
- 1. Get in Shape! (to become a more valuable agile team member) Augusto “Gus” Evangelisti Principal Agile Test Engineer (Business Systems Development - PaddyPower PLC)
- 2. Become a more valuable agile team member!
- 7. Signoff Signoff - A point in time where my responsibility ends, so for errors up to then you can blame me, after that it's your fault and I don’t give a rats arse. Gus Evangelisti
- 9. To avoid having fingers pointed at you
- 10. Some CYA techniques • I document my tests to prove I have executed them • I document my user stories and have no intention of discussing them with you because I’m to busy to change them • I write longwinded worthless planning documentation so that my manager has the impression of control, and I can avoid talking to him
- 11. The agile manifesto says Customer collaboration over Contract Negotiation Translates into Shared activities over Signoffs
- 12. Signoff by “High Five”
- 13. High Five!
- 14. Collaborate on everything • Analysis • Development • Test 3 Amigos one responsible entity THE TEAM No need for finger pointing, focus on resolving the issues and delivering value.
- 15. What do we need? T-shaped people
- 17. The 3 Amigos
- 18. How do I become t-shaped? When you are not busy, chances are that your colleagues are, ask them if you can help Assist your colleagues no matter what activity they are engaged in, you will learn something new Next time you are swamped you know you can ask for help and you will get it Get interested in different activities and study!
- 19. Why? You will be extremely more value for your team You will be extremely more valuable ($$$) when looking for a different job You will learn a lot about your colleagues You will have loads of fun
- 20. 3 Things to remember To Become a more valuable agile team member! Think Activities not Phases Share ownership don’t CYA Become T-Shaped
Editor's Notes
- We all know this, we all know this is wrong. What do you find wrong in this picture?
- Then SCRUM arrived and fixed all the problems (LAUGH)
- Then SCRUM arrived and fixed all the problems (LAUGH)