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Everything is better when we stick together
This document discusses building team alignment through establishing guiding principles, working agreements, and LEGO serious play. It recommends that teams define principles that embody their values to help make decisions. Teams should also forge working agreements about how members will interact and work together. The document then describes LEGO serious play techniques where team members use LEGO bricks to build models to explore challenges and answers in a creative, hands-on way. It provides examples of challenges teams could explore through LEGO serious play, such as describing the best/worst team member or their own superpowers.
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Everything is better when we stick together
- 1. What’s important tome as a team member? What do we value and how do we show it? How do we want to treat each other? What do we want to do when we don’t agree?
- 2. Everything is Better WhenWe Stick Together: Building Team Alignment Agile Tour Montreal 2014 Ellen Grove egrove@agilepartnership.com @eegrove
- 3. Building Alignment: Simple GuidingPrinciples and Working Agreements Principles will help us as we choose between alternatives. We will prefer an alternative that meets the principles more fully to one that doesn’t. Each principle embodies the values. By defining working agreements, your team members forge a pact about how they will interact, behave and produce
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- 5. LEGO Serious PlayEtiquette • The facilitator sets the challenge, timelines and guides the process. • The model is your answer to the challenge. • There are no wrong answers. • Think with your hands. • Listen with your eyes and ears. • Everyone participates.
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- 7. The best/worst teammember ever…
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- 9. Kenny Louie ViaCreative Commons What help from my team do I
- 10. What do wedo to be awesome together?
- 12. Keep in touch: egrove@agilepartnership.com @eegrove http://masteringtheobvious.wordpress.com LSPinfo: seriousplay.com Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- #4 What kind of help do you need from others to be successful? What characteristic do you most appreciate in other team members? What kind of help do you need from colleagues to be successful in your role? What’s one simple principle that we can follow to work more effectively as a program team?
- #6 Now we are going to make a bridge Empty the bricks onto the table, keep them in front of you as this is your inventory for the day Make or find the little man with the white pants, blue shirt and a yellow head. Give no instructions regarding how big the bridge should be....if the builder calls it a bridge, it’s a bridge.
- #8 Build a model to share your best/worst …project experience …agile team member …
- #9 Hidden power – what do you know about yourself that others do not