Main Takeaways: -Empowering and motivating team members in the planning process. -Use of "Dual Track Scrum/Double Diamond Methodology" in Agile teams -How to set sprint goals and push the team further

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About myself
Computer Engineering B.Sc.
and M.Sc.
- Software Developer
- Associate PM
- PM
- Head of Product
- Senior PM
- Tribe Lead

7. Most often
- Product Manager
- Designer
- Backend Developer(s)
- iOS Developer(s)
- Android Developer(s)
- Frontend Web Developer(s)
- DevOps Engineer
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Common Agile team / squad structure
In some teams
- Data Scientist(s)
- Data Engineer(s)
- Data (BI) Analyst
- QA Engineer
- Engineering Manager
Squads fully responsible for a user journey (product/feature).

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How can we perform better?
What is the right way to do it?

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Q1: Are we working on
something valuable?

10. - Empowered, high performing teams need
motivation
- Everyone wants to work on something valuable
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Q1: Are we working on something valuable?

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- OKR Framework or any other equivalent
- Periodic squad objectives and key results
- Based on tribe/company OKRs
- Having a solid product strategy is essential
- Marty Cagan’s articles on SVPG Insights Blog
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Q1: Are we working on something valuable?

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- Convince your teammates that they are
working on something valuable
- Prioritize problems to solve, not projects
- Items in the backlog should contribute to
team goals
- Link items with OKRs
- Start with why (Simon Sinek)
- Explain the motivation behind
- Show them numbers
🤯
- Don’t have a pile of random projects
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Q1: Are we working on something valuable?
https://youtu.be/u4ZoJKF_VuA

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Q2: Are we making an impact?
Are we showing progress?

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- Share the current numbers (for your goals)
- Show them which problem is coming up
next and why.
- Let them do demos.
- Direct feedback opportunity
- Provides visibility / recognition
🤯
- Don’t isolate the team, also don't overload
the team with meetings
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Q2: Are we making an impact? Are we showing
progress?

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Q3: Is this really the agile way?
Or is it waterfall dressed up as
agile

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- Most of the scrum teams apply mini-waterfall inside
Scrum framework
- Requirements -> Design -> Development -> Test
- Developers are not involved in product discovery and
design processes
- Solutions are presented to them, not problems
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Q3: Is this really the agile way?

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Q3: Is this really the agile way?
Dual Track Scrum
Designer
Product
Eng Lead
Team
Refinement
Whole Squad
Let's zoom into the discovery track - aka double diamond
https://www.quora.com/What-is-dual-track-scrum
https://svpg.com/dual-track-agile/

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Q3: Is this really the agile way?
Discovery Track - Double Diamond Methodology
First
Iteration
Team
Refinement
Final
Iteration &
Prototype
Pre-Planning & QA
Test Cases
Analysis &
Exploration
Mon T/W Fri AM Mon Wed Thu
*Guerrilla Testing*

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Q4: Does this sprint planning
meeting take too long?

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- Best sprint planning is the shortest one
- It’s the least important meeting
- Don’t spend hours in meeting rooms (before Covid-19)
- Devs take their free time to assign story points / estimate
- Specs should be well discussed and estimations should’ve been made
prior to meeting
- It should be just a matter of placing items according to your velocity
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Q4: Does this sprint planning meeting take too long?

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- Long planning meetings (4 hours for a 2 week
sprint)
- Everybody gets tired and bored (meetings
are the nightmare of every dev)
- Paul Graham: Maker’s schedule manager’s
schedule
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Q3: Does this sprint planning meeting take too long?

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Q5: How are we going to set a
goal and push the team
further?

23. First, the push part:
- Don’t push the team 😊
- If needed, let someone from
engineering do it
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Q5: How are we going to set a goal and push the
team further?
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Sure we can fit that in the current sprint…
Thanks to Jeff Gothelf (@jboogie)

24. Sprint goal:
- Should be something to increase collaboration
- Ideally, a common goal for the whole team
- It’s also a challenge:
- Especially in teams with multiple platforms
(iOS, web, Android)
- Solution?
- Different goals for different roles in the
team
- Set the most important one as team goal
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Q5: How are we going to set a goal and push the
team further?

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Thank you for listening…
https://www.linkedin.com/in/melih-ozbekoglu-70515111/
@melihozbekoglu

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