Learn more about what actions to take after you collect a metric assessment for your team. Utilize Kaizen and introspection in ways that promote continuous improvement

1. Agile
Metrics
Sequel
The journey to team
introspection...
by Pelumi Olajide

2. What is the
sequel to agile
metrics ?
Team has identified the right goal, measures
and metrics they need.
Team has access to the data results required to
measure and update the metric.
Team evaluates, examines and discuss their
feelings, thoughts and ideas about the results.
Team considers how to analyze the data and
interpret the results.
Team decides on what they want and where
they aspire to be.
Team takes action that leads them to
where they want to be using
the continuous improvement/Kiazen
model

3. What's
your story
with agile
metrics?
Select one Squad
member
To summarize the findings form the group
for the three questions.
Share the new discovery with the class.
NEXT
Squad of 4-7
Each squad member answers the following
questions:
1) What quantitative or qualitative agile
metrics are used at your organization?
2) How is the metric utilized?
3) Are there constructive discussions to
help understand and inform actions to be
taken based on debrief of the results?
EXERCISE

4. What's
next?
Metrics are great tools for measuring growth,
continuous improvement and performance. At
some point metrics and best practices alone
becomes ineffective in complex environments, the
need for a deep introspection is required to
understand the actions to take. A constructive
conversation is required to understand the
holistic view.

5. Looking inward to understand
one's emotions, feelings,
actions and beliefs to help
increase self awareness and
self knowledge... is called
Introspection

6. HOW TO INSPIRE THE
TEAM TO ACT THROUGH
"Introspection using
Kaizen model"
PLAN
1) Create an open, safe
and transparent
atmosphere to collect and
mirror the results.
2) Debrief the results with
the team.
DO & ACT
3) Team decides what
issues are important to
tackle, what solutions are
available and most
important " what are we
going to do about it"
CHECK
4) Learning by
experimentation,
assessing what works and
then documentation

7. Performing team bonding
activities before we start the
conversation allows for an open
and transparent discussion
Activities you could do to open
up introspection on the team
include:
1) The 2 Truths and a lie
detector
2) Explain and Explore
3) Tribes and constellations
4) Check-in questions like "
How do you relive stress?", ...
5) What's the story behind
your name?
Create a safe
environment

8. The story
of my
name...
Introduce your
partner
Each person will introduce his/her partner
to the larger group and to explain what
his/her name means and where it comes
from.
NEXT
Peer of two
Choose a partner and take turns to answer
the below questions:
1) Explain what your name means and
where it comes from.
2) How did you "get" your name, who
named you what and why.
3) How has your name influenced your life
or the life of someone closely related to you
positively or negatively
EXERCISE

9. INTROSPECTION
THE POWER OF

10. Debrief the
results
The team assessment debrief results
step assumes the following steps will
be taken into consideration:

11. Powerful
Introspection
Questions
Generate insights and solutions:
To allow for deep introspection consider
asking the following questions:
1) How do we feel about our current
assessment result?
2) What environmental factors affect why
we are at this point?
3) Where would the team like to be?
4) How would you want it to be?
5) What does a dream team look like?
6) What past experiences can we learn
from?
7)What's already working that we can
build on?
8)What would an experiment look like?
9)What might "help" look like?
10) What can we do differently?

12. A mini
assessment
exercise
Based on your
team's final score
form groups.
If your team is in its forming stages form a
group. Same applies to storming, norming
and performing.
NEXT
Squad of 4-7
Using the Goal-Question-Metric Survey on
your desk:
1) Refer to a team you recently or currently
work with and answer the questions related
to the team's health maturity level.
2) Write the score for each sub-category
3) Sum up all scores and divide by 2. to get
the final score
4) Determine the level as forming,
storming, norming or performing using the
legend on the survey
EXERCISE

13. A mini
introspection
exercise
Using Stickies.
Write action items that answers the
questions:
1) What can I do differently?
2) What does "help" look like?
Add your stickies to the flip chart with he
above questions.
NEXT
Team maturity
groups
Using the flip charts on the wall, discuss
and answer the following questions with
your group members:
1) How do you feel about your current
assessment result?
2) Where would you like the team to be?
3) What can be done differently?
EXERCISE

14. ACTION
LIST
So we have many ideas and actions on how to
improve, how then do we determine what to focus
our attention on now versus later?
There are different ways to analyze the generated
insights and action items from the introspection
activity. Some well known 2 by 2 matrix
categorization include:
1) Action priority matrix: Benefit/impact versus
Effort
2) Create a timeline/ road map
3) Create an action list with who, when and what

15. Impact versus
effort matrix
exercise
Using I will...So
that...
Reflecting on the introspective exercise and
the analysis done, add at least one take
away from today's session in the format of
I will do XXX for my team so that
......benefit can be realized.
NEXT
Team maturity
groups
Using the flip charts on the wall with the
Impact versus effort chart, discuss and add
to appropriate group atleast ten of the
action item stickies from the last exercise:
Group 1) High Impact and Low Effort
required
Group 2) High Impact and High Effort
Group 3) Low Impact and Low Effort
Group 4) Low Impact and High Effort
EXERCISE

16. The new agile
metric narrative!
Team has identified the right goal, measures
and metrics they need.
Team has access to the data results required to
measure and update the metric.
Team evaluates, examines and discuss their
feelings, thoughts and ideas about the results.
Team considers how to analyze the data and
interpret the results.
Team decides on what they want and where
they aspire to be.
Team takes action that leads them to
where they want to be using
the continuous improvement/Kiazen
model

17. SUCCESS IS WALKING
FROM FAILURE TO
FAILURE WITH NO LOSS
OF ENTHUSIASM.
Winston Churchill
CONCLUSION

18. THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
TIME.
I hope you enjoyed
the presentation.