The document discusses how to improve team performance and engagement through agile principles. It notes that employee engagement starts with investing in managers' ability to motivate employees. Fair process is important for buy-in on decisions. Self-organization enables teams to perform at their best when leaders provide focus, clear goals and expectations, and an environment for continuous learning and improvement. Measuring outcomes rather than busywork helps maximize team value.

1. Connecting the Dots
Management
Agile
Principles
Engineering
Leading
Agile
Software
Teams

2. Kahoot#1 (Sagi) - What is the approximate
percentage of engaged people in your
organization?
20%
40%
60%
80%

3. 13
%
24
%
63
%
Engaged
Not
Engaged
Actively
Disengaged

4. 13%
31%
5%

5. Managers Account for 70%
...of Variance in Employee Engagement

6. Takeaway #1
Employee engagement starts with
investment in the
managers, and in particular in their
ability to motivate and engage employees...

7. Kahoot #2 - Yael - How many times
did you give instructions to others in
the last two days
less than 2
2-5
more than 5
1000

8. Provide solutions
Coaching/Leadership
Ask questions
Guide
Give instructions
Communicate Intent
over
Control
I’m Listening Listen to me
Learning & Growth Get it done now
Management
Teach Problem Solving
Do it this way

9. Challenge
above all
Continuous
training and
coaching
Provide
focus
Self directed,
responsibility
The know the
organization’
s goal and to
believe it
The need to
see results
Knowledge
Worker

10. Takeaway #2
Learn from David Marquet… Communicate
using intent, be curious, help people think like
managers
More Coaching than management
Understand Knowledge Workers drivers

11. Kahoot #3 . Sagi - If I want to
improve team performance, my best
investment will probably be in
improving...
1. Talent of individual team members
2. Team communication effectiveness
3. Experience of team members
4. Reducing the age of team members

12. THE NEW SCIENCE OF
HIGH PERFORMANCE
TEAMS

13. Sociometric
Badge

15. What Contributes to Team
Performance?
Team
Communicatio
n Patterns
Team members’
talent
Team members’
intelligence
Team members’
experience & pas
accomplishments

16. Takeaway #3
Self-Organization makes good business sense.
Leaders’ role is to design an environment
which enables self organization.

17. Kahoot 4 - Yael - To maximize the
value teams generate, my #1 goal in
structuring the teams is...
100% utilization of team members
Gender Balanced
Minimizing dependencies to other teams
A long lived team

18. 3 reasons why 100% utilization is
not a good goal
★ Multi tasking that results with task switch
★ Optimize the outcome, not the output
★ Remove slack = no time for improvement
and innovation

19. Don’t be afraid from slack.
Use it as an opportunity for learning and
improvement
Maintain improvement backlog
Takeaway #4

20. Kahoot #5 - Sagi - When I make
decisions which impact teams, What
will affect people's willingness to
commit?
- The team believes this is the right decision
- Decision making process was fair
- Decision was reached by consensus
- The decision relies on research and
expertise

21. Fair Process
Engagement
Individuals are involved in decisions
which affect them
Explanation
Individuals affected by a decision must
understand why the decision was made
(transparency of intent and rationale)
Expectation
Clarity
Once a decision is made, clearly specify
the expectations & responsibilities
IT’S NOT
FAIR!

22. Takeaway #5
Fair Process is at least as important as good
decisions
Fair Process =
Engagement +
Explanation +
Expectations

23. Kahoot #6 (Yael). What will you use
as main measurement for progress?
Consumed capacity
Committed vs. Actual
Average team member weight
Done stories vs Total # of stories

25. Pay attention to what you
measure.
Takeaway #6

26. “With people slow is fast and fast is slow”

27. Leadership
Self-Organization

28. The End

30. Connecting the Dots
Self-Organization
Agile
Engineering
Leading
Agile
Software
Teams

31. ‫הדבר‬ ‫אותו‬ ‫זה‬

32. Our developers feel comfortable
making changes in the code
absolutely
mostly
sometimes
rarely

33. Continuous Improvement

34. Big Picture
In your organization, If I ask 10 team members,
how many will be able to articulate the project
release goals and benefits?
- 10
- 7 or less
- 3 or less
- 0

35. 7. Which of these engineering
practices has the highest proven
ROI

36. Support 4
Are you catalyzing organizational
change to support culture of value
delivery?
Are you able to effectively distribute resources across teams to maximize
team value delivery, rather than striving for resource utilization per se?
Agile values getting work done over having items in progress. The question for an Agile manager becomes, "How can I array people to best
increase throughput?" rather than "How can I maximize `my' people
being utilized at 100%?

37. lack of engagement is an issue that has always mattered, but it matters now more than ever,
because knowledge-based organizations are totally dependent on the commitment and ideas
of their employees
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38. How is it related to Agile
Agile frameworks take this into consideration
1. Communication frameworks
2. PatternsPractices to enable Autonomy
Masterypurpose
3. Fast tangible results
The job of manager shifts from director / manager of the team’s work, to a position of coach,
boundary keeper, obstacle remover and organizational change driver.

39. Individual Prep…!!!!!!
- Rehearse - 2 minutes per question
- Each question, link to agile
- Think about switching quickly from the
presentation to kahoot and back
- Make survey available and provide link

41. 1. What is the approximate percentage of engaged people in your organization? 20/40/60/80
2. How many times did you give instructions to others in the last two days ? 0 / more then 2/ 20/ all day
3. If we want to improve team performance, our best investment will probably be in improving…
o Talent of individual team members
o Team communication effectiveness
o Experience of team members
o Reducing the age of team members
4. To maximize the value teams generate, my #1 goal in structuring the teams is…
● 100% utilization of team members (everyone is busy)
● More women
● Minimizing dependencies to other teams
● Long lived team
5. When making decisions which impact teams, What will affect people's willingness to commit?
● This is the right decision
● Decision making process was fair
● Consensus was reached
● External experts were consulted
6, What will you use as main measurement for progress ?
● Consumed capacity
● Committed vs. Actual
● Average team member weight
● Done stories vs Total # of stories
7. In your organization, out of 10 people how many will be able to articulate the project goals?
8. Can you specify a single improvement done by the team in the last couple of weeks ?