Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solve and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to delivering better products. Without it, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place!
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, why aren't we all excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time, and BEGGING others to give it to us? In my experience, people are generally not enthusiastic or confident in their ability to give feedback. Feedback usually isn't happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing.
As a manager, leader, and coach of many teams over the last 20+ years, I can help you get a good foothold on where to start. Even better, I can tell you where the bodies are buried so you avoid some of the mistakes I've experienced over the years too.
In this session, we'll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We'll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference. We'll finish off with a quick summary of some "tips and tricks" to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me. You'll be a feedback champion before you know it!
Webinar presented by Jamie V. Parker for KaiNexus.
In this webinar you will:
Uncover one common change management teaching that's flat-out wrong (and what to do instead)
Understand the psychology of change and its relation to Respect for People and Continuous Improvement
Discover the one most important factor to help transform to a Lean culture
Learn 8 practical steps to help teams embrace change more quickly
Jamie Parker
Process + Results Leadership Coaching
Jamie has served in operations management roles for 17 years, including six years practicing Lean. So she knows first-hand the challenges, opportunities, and possibilities organizations face. Today Jamie helps organizations practicing Lean move from employee resistance, inconsistent performance, and improvement stagnation to highly engaged frontline teams solving problems and continuously improving toward organizational goals. Jamie does this by helping organizations transform their leaders using her signature Process + Results Lean Leadership Transformation Model. Jamie has facilitated workshops for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, American Society for Quality, and Fortune 50 executives, in addition to years of coaching and facilitating in her formal management roles. She authored Chapter 6 in the book Practicing Lean and has facilitated webinars and podcasts in partnership with Gemba Academy. Jamie brings passion, fun, and purpose to her work in Lean and leadership.
This slide deck accompanies a workshop I ran at Agile India in March 2017. The majority of the audience were scrummasters, agile coaches, team managers etc.
It leans on the Heart of Agile meme.
The workshop focused on two activities;
1. thinking about better than best practices so that we can escape the tyranny of other people's patterns.
2. Getting people to reflect on the experience of telling/being told versus collaborating on a problem.
Personal Agility: From Personal Satisfaction to Professional ImpactPeter Stevens
Personal Agility is a simple, easy-to-use framework to help you figure out and do more of what really matters. Personal Agility connects what you do with who you are and who you want to be. Personal Agility is also a simple leadership framework to help you build alignment throughout your organization.
Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? This talk give answers, shares case studies, and shows how you can use this simple framework to do more that matters and less that doesn't!
As presented at Torino Agile Conference, February 3, 2018
Webinar presented by Jamie V. Parker for KaiNexus.
In this webinar you will:
Uncover one common change management teaching that's flat-out wrong (and what to do instead)
Understand the psychology of change and its relation to Respect for People and Continuous Improvement
Discover the one most important factor to help transform to a Lean culture
Learn 8 practical steps to help teams embrace change more quickly
Jamie Parker
Process + Results Leadership Coaching
Jamie has served in operations management roles for 17 years, including six years practicing Lean. So she knows first-hand the challenges, opportunities, and possibilities organizations face. Today Jamie helps organizations practicing Lean move from employee resistance, inconsistent performance, and improvement stagnation to highly engaged frontline teams solving problems and continuously improving toward organizational goals. Jamie does this by helping organizations transform their leaders using her signature Process + Results Lean Leadership Transformation Model. Jamie has facilitated workshops for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, American Society for Quality, and Fortune 50 executives, in addition to years of coaching and facilitating in her formal management roles. She authored Chapter 6 in the book Practicing Lean and has facilitated webinars and podcasts in partnership with Gemba Academy. Jamie brings passion, fun, and purpose to her work in Lean and leadership.
This slide deck accompanies a workshop I ran at Agile India in March 2017. The majority of the audience were scrummasters, agile coaches, team managers etc.
It leans on the Heart of Agile meme.
The workshop focused on two activities;
1. thinking about better than best practices so that we can escape the tyranny of other people's patterns.
2. Getting people to reflect on the experience of telling/being told versus collaborating on a problem.
Personal Agility: From Personal Satisfaction to Professional ImpactPeter Stevens
Personal Agility is a simple, easy-to-use framework to help you figure out and do more of what really matters. Personal Agility connects what you do with who you are and who you want to be. Personal Agility is also a simple leadership framework to help you build alignment throughout your organization.
Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? This talk give answers, shares case studies, and shows how you can use this simple framework to do more that matters and less that doesn't!
As presented at Torino Agile Conference, February 3, 2018
Moneyball of Leadership: Predictors of High Performance | Next Jump Leadershi...Next Jump
Charlie Kim and Meghan Messenger, Co-CEOs of Next Jump, in a two-part keynote for Next Jump Leadership Academy, April 19-21, 2017.
Slides 1-30 "Coaching Your Organization" by Charlie Kim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH89weEyDGg
Slides 32-55 "Coaching Yourself" by Meghan Messenger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oH_fSaAaEY
Succeeding with the Messy Work of ChangeLisa Trager
IDW 2017 presentation by Lisa L. Trager.
Bringing about change in any organization can be complicated and often comes down to “change management.” The impact that digital transformation has on every level of an organization requires the ability to show not only the benefits of the new direction, but also ways to engage, entrust, and help those who will be impacted with the ability to envision themselves as part of the change coming.
We often optimize our software for performance, but what also optimizing our development teams for happiness? Take a look at how the tools you choose for your development team can impact developer happiness, and learn how to keep your teams happier and more productive.
*The graph on slide 3 is fabricated data, because studies also show that people are more likely to believe statements accompanied by scientific data.*
Collaboration: Cockburn's Dance of Contribution in a WorkshopCraig Brown
This is a presentation which accompanies a workshop on Alistair's "Collaboration; The dance of Contribution" article.
You can read the article here: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Collaboration%3A+the+dance+of+contribution
The workshop includes two games as well as a description of what leadership behaviours matter when you move from a compliant or merely co-operative culture to a collaborative one.
How to Successfully Manage Both Small and Large Teams Weekdone.com
Learn the main difference between managing small and large teams. How to handle both and so much more.
Imagine you are promoted to lead a bigger team. What are the key areas you should focus on? In these slides you will learn what to focus on, combined with actionable advice.
Agile innovation and Thinking Like a StartupChris Chan
Many enterprises are struggling to innovate whilst smaller startups are disrupting the market. Existing organisational business models work well in a known and predictable environment. However, these approaches fail when applied to an uncertain and changing environment.
In this session I will discuss the different approaches and how an organisation can balance a portfolio that both can exploit existing opportunities while enable the exploration of new opportunities.
I will draw on my experience working with some innovation teams in an enterprise and how we are re-focusing agile back to its roots and thinking like a startup to evolve the way we work.
Participants will also gain an understanding how Design Thinking/Human Centred Design, Lean Startup, Agile and Business Model Innovation can blended together to transform the way you work to enable innovation within larger enterprises.
Zach Nies, Techstars , @zachnies
Rachel Weston Rowell, CA Technologies , @RachelAWeston
You know that Lean Startup techniques have helped your company move forward, and you know your competitors are successfully using those same techniques. To stay ahead of the competition, you need to find new ways to accelerate your company. The key is to use Lean to balance exploration and operation within your company. In this experience report, Zach Nies and Rachel Weston Rowell will share techniques and stories from startups to large organizations that have accelerated their growth by applying Lean thinking to how they operate their company and how they explore through uncertainty.
Exploring the Fertile Boundaries Between Faith and Business // #leanfaithLean Startup Co.
Ken Howard, FaithX , @paradoxy101
Toby Rubin, UpStart Bay Area , @upstartbayarea
Spencer Burke, Hatchery LA , @hatchery_la
Author, extrapreneurial faith leader, and church futurist, Ken Howard, will lead a curated discussion of the fertile ground that lies at the boundaries of faith and business. He will be joined by entrepreneur and community innovator Toby Rubin, of UpStart Bay Area, and innovator and author Spencer Burke, of HatcheryLA. Topics like: Experimental Faith-Based Communities & Organizations, Lean in the Jewish Space, and Incubation & Acceleration of Faith Communities are just a few of the things Ken and his guests will be discussing at this first-of-its-kind program at the Lean Startup Conference.
Book summary - Perspectives on agility - Hrishikesh KarekarHrishikesh Karekar
Based on insights from years of agile coaching and leading large agile transformations, Perspectives on agility provides a point of view on some of the crucial aspects that leaders, coaches, and agile practitioners need to focus on in their journey for business agility.
The workshop lets you explore a number of complexity oriented management methods around the topic of aligned autonomy, such as the action huddle, strategic storyline, complexity oriented delegation. We explain the purpose and the function of each method, and try them out in groups.
In this presentation, we cover the ways your brain learns and grows, and how that impacts your performance and satisfaction as a leader. You'll learn an easy, 3-step process you can start doing today to increase vision, stimulate innovation, and more.
For more neuroscience-based tools to lead your team to the next level, head to www.SmartTribesInstitute.com/FreeTools and download your free gift.
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solving and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to happier people delivering better products. Without effective feedback, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place! In my experience, people are generally not confident in their feedback skills. This makes feedback feel risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing and so then they give no feedback at all.
Feedback Doesn't Have to Suck. In this fast-paced 20 minute session focused on supercharging your feedback skills, I will help you get a good foothold on where to start. We’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is, attributes of high-quality feedback, and some “tips and tricks” to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me both as a manager and a team member. You’ll be a feedback champion before you know it!
THAT Conference 2021 - Level up your Feedback GameAngela Dugan
Feedback makes the world go around, and let’s be honest, many of us feel pretty unskilled at feedback - both at giving and receiving. As technologists, we thrive on experimenting, learning, and adjusting, which we cannot do without the input and perspectives of others around us.
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, if feedback is truly a “gift”, what’s the deal? Why isn’t everyone wholeheartedly and excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time? In my experience, feedback isn’t happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing. Feedback is also something we’re not trained to do well if at all. Bad practices like the “feedback sh*t sandwich” is still common practice. It may even feel like a personal and professional bear trap! In this session, we’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We’ll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference.
Moneyball of Leadership: Predictors of High Performance | Next Jump Leadershi...Next Jump
Charlie Kim and Meghan Messenger, Co-CEOs of Next Jump, in a two-part keynote for Next Jump Leadership Academy, April 19-21, 2017.
Slides 1-30 "Coaching Your Organization" by Charlie Kim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH89weEyDGg
Slides 32-55 "Coaching Yourself" by Meghan Messenger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oH_fSaAaEY
Succeeding with the Messy Work of ChangeLisa Trager
IDW 2017 presentation by Lisa L. Trager.
Bringing about change in any organization can be complicated and often comes down to “change management.” The impact that digital transformation has on every level of an organization requires the ability to show not only the benefits of the new direction, but also ways to engage, entrust, and help those who will be impacted with the ability to envision themselves as part of the change coming.
We often optimize our software for performance, but what also optimizing our development teams for happiness? Take a look at how the tools you choose for your development team can impact developer happiness, and learn how to keep your teams happier and more productive.
*The graph on slide 3 is fabricated data, because studies also show that people are more likely to believe statements accompanied by scientific data.*
Collaboration: Cockburn's Dance of Contribution in a WorkshopCraig Brown
This is a presentation which accompanies a workshop on Alistair's "Collaboration; The dance of Contribution" article.
You can read the article here: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Collaboration%3A+the+dance+of+contribution
The workshop includes two games as well as a description of what leadership behaviours matter when you move from a compliant or merely co-operative culture to a collaborative one.
How to Successfully Manage Both Small and Large Teams Weekdone.com
Learn the main difference between managing small and large teams. How to handle both and so much more.
Imagine you are promoted to lead a bigger team. What are the key areas you should focus on? In these slides you will learn what to focus on, combined with actionable advice.
Agile innovation and Thinking Like a StartupChris Chan
Many enterprises are struggling to innovate whilst smaller startups are disrupting the market. Existing organisational business models work well in a known and predictable environment. However, these approaches fail when applied to an uncertain and changing environment.
In this session I will discuss the different approaches and how an organisation can balance a portfolio that both can exploit existing opportunities while enable the exploration of new opportunities.
I will draw on my experience working with some innovation teams in an enterprise and how we are re-focusing agile back to its roots and thinking like a startup to evolve the way we work.
Participants will also gain an understanding how Design Thinking/Human Centred Design, Lean Startup, Agile and Business Model Innovation can blended together to transform the way you work to enable innovation within larger enterprises.
Zach Nies, Techstars , @zachnies
Rachel Weston Rowell, CA Technologies , @RachelAWeston
You know that Lean Startup techniques have helped your company move forward, and you know your competitors are successfully using those same techniques. To stay ahead of the competition, you need to find new ways to accelerate your company. The key is to use Lean to balance exploration and operation within your company. In this experience report, Zach Nies and Rachel Weston Rowell will share techniques and stories from startups to large organizations that have accelerated their growth by applying Lean thinking to how they operate their company and how they explore through uncertainty.
Exploring the Fertile Boundaries Between Faith and Business // #leanfaithLean Startup Co.
Ken Howard, FaithX , @paradoxy101
Toby Rubin, UpStart Bay Area , @upstartbayarea
Spencer Burke, Hatchery LA , @hatchery_la
Author, extrapreneurial faith leader, and church futurist, Ken Howard, will lead a curated discussion of the fertile ground that lies at the boundaries of faith and business. He will be joined by entrepreneur and community innovator Toby Rubin, of UpStart Bay Area, and innovator and author Spencer Burke, of HatcheryLA. Topics like: Experimental Faith-Based Communities & Organizations, Lean in the Jewish Space, and Incubation & Acceleration of Faith Communities are just a few of the things Ken and his guests will be discussing at this first-of-its-kind program at the Lean Startup Conference.
Book summary - Perspectives on agility - Hrishikesh KarekarHrishikesh Karekar
Based on insights from years of agile coaching and leading large agile transformations, Perspectives on agility provides a point of view on some of the crucial aspects that leaders, coaches, and agile practitioners need to focus on in their journey for business agility.
The workshop lets you explore a number of complexity oriented management methods around the topic of aligned autonomy, such as the action huddle, strategic storyline, complexity oriented delegation. We explain the purpose and the function of each method, and try them out in groups.
In this presentation, we cover the ways your brain learns and grows, and how that impacts your performance and satisfaction as a leader. You'll learn an easy, 3-step process you can start doing today to increase vision, stimulate innovation, and more.
For more neuroscience-based tools to lead your team to the next level, head to www.SmartTribesInstitute.com/FreeTools and download your free gift.
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solving and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to happier people delivering better products. Without effective feedback, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place! In my experience, people are generally not confident in their feedback skills. This makes feedback feel risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing and so then they give no feedback at all.
Feedback Doesn't Have to Suck. In this fast-paced 20 minute session focused on supercharging your feedback skills, I will help you get a good foothold on where to start. We’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is, attributes of high-quality feedback, and some “tips and tricks” to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me both as a manager and a team member. You’ll be a feedback champion before you know it!
THAT Conference 2021 - Level up your Feedback GameAngela Dugan
Feedback makes the world go around, and let’s be honest, many of us feel pretty unskilled at feedback - both at giving and receiving. As technologists, we thrive on experimenting, learning, and adjusting, which we cannot do without the input and perspectives of others around us.
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, if feedback is truly a “gift”, what’s the deal? Why isn’t everyone wholeheartedly and excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time? In my experience, feedback isn’t happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing. Feedback is also something we’re not trained to do well if at all. Bad practices like the “feedback sh*t sandwich” is still common practice. It may even feel like a personal and professional bear trap! In this session, we’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We’ll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference.
The Secret Thing That Is Holding You Back In Your Nonprofit Career Bloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Mazarine Treyz will talk about exactly how to build trust and make your fundraising office even more effective.
VS Live 2021 VST09 agile team metrics Fast Focus - angela duganAngela Dugan
Are you still relying on the old standbys like percent complete, velocity, and burndown for monitoring the progress of your teams or projects? Those metrics may not be telling you what you think they are! In this fast-paced discussion, we'll talk about some of the pitfalls of commonly used metrics, and make the case for not so commonly used measures that give you the insights that you're really striving for.
You will learn:
Understand the connection between what you measure, your team performance, and product quality
Explanation of how many commonly used metrics will fail to tell you what you really need to know
Familiarity with uncommonly used metrics that will more reliably tell you how well your project or team are really doing
Create Engaging Scenario-Based Training on ANY BudgetAggregage
In this webinar, we’ll explore how to optimize learner engagement by adding scenarios to your training, regardless of your budget. We’ll explain what makes up scenarios, how they benefit the learner, and why this is important to your organization. Then we’ll dive into real-world examples across a wide range of budgets, and look at how typical training content can be transformed into awesome, engaging, scenario-based training.
107 - It's not easy starting new: career transitioning to product, starting ...ProductCamp Boston
ProductCamp Boston is the world's largest and most exciting
crowd-sourced one-day event for product people. It's
organized by and for product managers, product marketers and
entrepreneurs, so attendees get the most out of the day.
Attendees learn about and discuss topics in product
management and product marketing, product discovery,
product development & design, go-to-market, product strategy
and lifecycle management, and product management 101,
startups, and career development.
www.ProductCampBoston.org
Organizational Change Management: Game Changer or Flavor of the day?Deepak Babbar
This abstract reflects some of the practical challenges organizations undergoing business and information technology (IT) transformations face in today’s rapidly changing environment. When organizations embark on these large-scale initiatives, increasingly they are adding organizational change management (OCM) to the mix. This is, perhaps, an acknowledgement that previous initiatives have not met the mark because the people side of change was underestimated or not factored in.
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Start by reading and following these instructions:
1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus.
2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources. Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources. Choose your sources carefully.
3. Consider the discussions and any insights gained from it.
4. Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling.
Assignment:
1. Identify a company or organization in the media or with which you are familiar that operates ethically. What are the reasons this company/organization is ethical? (You may refer to the leadership, management, products, or services of the organization.)
2. Do you believe the covenantal ethic and social contract views are realistic for large organizations like Bank of America, JPMorgan, ExxonMobil, and Citibank, or federal agencies like the FTC and the Department of Defense? Why or why not? Explain.
3. Outline some steps you would recommend for preventing future corporate scandals like Enron, WorldCom, and the subprime lending crisis based on the contents of this module.
4. My job requires that I lie every day I go to work. I work for a private investigation agency called XRT. Most of the work I do involves undercover operations, mobile surveillances, and groundwork searches to determine the whereabouts of manufacturers that produce counterfeit merchandise. Each assignment I take requires some deception on my part. Recently I have become very conscious of the fact that I frequently have to lie to obtain concrete evidence for a client. I sometimes dig myself so deeply into a lie that I naturally take it to the next level, without ever accomplishing the core purpose of the investigation.
Working for an investigative agency engages me in assignments that vary on a day-to-day basis. I choose to work for XRT because it is not a routine 9-to-5 desk job. But to continue working for the agency means I will constantly be developing new untruthful stories. And the longer I decide to stay at XRT, the more involved the assignments will be. To leave would probably force me into a job photocopying and fling paperwork once I graduate from college. Recently I was given an assignment that I believed would lead me to entrap a subject to obtain evidence for a client. The subject had applied for disability on workers’ compensation after being hit by a truck. Because the subject refused to partake in any strenuous activity because of the accident, I was instructed to fake a flat tire and videotape the subject changing it for me. Although I did not feel comfortable engaging in this type of act, my supervisors assured me that it was ethical practice and not entrapment.
Coworkers and other supervisors assured me that this was a standard “industry practice,” and that we would go out of busine ...
How to cultivate and use a strategic system for mitigating project failures. How to manage your own reaction along with the loss of trust or damage to one’s reputation that can happen
Managing Successful Virtual Teams - 6 Tactics For Success VirtualTeams.net
Virtual teams are becoming more and more common as technology advances. To manage successful virtual teams, it’s crucial to find ways to keep remote team members motivated and on-task.
Keynote - Thomson Reuters Synergy 2015 Conference
In this inspirational keynote, Tom will show practitioners how to explore new value-added services and position their practices for success in a rapidly changing world. He'll discuss the major "shift change" and the trends shaping business today, and give participants a framework to provide more proactive services and strategic advice—and a plan to get started.
Tom Hood (Maryland Association of CPAs, Inc.)—Tom is passionate about three areas: leadership, learning, and technology. His recognition and awards reflect his leadership in helping CPAs "shape their future" through his work as the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs and the Business Learning Institute, a center for the development of leadership, strategic thinking, and collaboration skills for CPAs. In 2013, Accounting Today said about Tom, "If there is a conversation about the future of the profession, you're bound to hear Hood's name mentioned as one of the people leading the way. Hood is doing as much as anyone—and more than most- to lead public accounting forward."
CPA Practice Advisor inducted Tom into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2015. He was named the fourth most influential leader in Accounting Today’s 2014 list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting (his tenth time on the list). LinkedIn recruited Tom as one of their Top 150 Influencers, and he was named to the Top 25 Influencers in Learning by HR Examiner.
People can work together while living in different realities because everyone interprets the world in their own way. Assumptions, misunderstandings, information gaps, behavioural habits, biases – these often sit under the radar, affecting performance, motivation, and delivery. We call it ‘The Fog’, and it makes progress difficult, frustrating, and slow.
This session is all about team alignment for effective delivery.
Timothy Gallwey’s acclaimed The Inner Game teaches four parts to the learning process:
awareness of what is
focus of attention
own choice (regarding own decisions)
trust in self and team.
This transfers to the letter when it comes to developing the Agile Mindset and I specialize in helping teams with the first step. In this session, you'll learn about the research behind team alignment, you'll find out a structured team alignment process works, and you'll see results through a case study with Samsung.
We will workshop a few areas around 'perception differences' and I also offer a free Take the Team Test online tool to assess your team's behavioral and cognitive alignment. Anyone attending this session is invited to take the test in advance and share your experiences of it in this interactive session.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8017/take-the-team-test-and-clear-the-fog
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
VS Liv MSHQ 2022 - Measuring Up! How To Choose Agile Metrics - Dugan.pdfAngela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense to you, that felt counterproductive to your or the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect in a sane fashion? Oftentimes, I find that metrics being collected are ones that are easy to collect and report on but are not necessarily the ones that will help the team learn and improve.
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have taken the lead. Metrics have lagged a bit and often rely on very waterfall-style milestones and phase-gates to determine a team's effectiveness. In the spirit of continuous improvement, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve.
That conference tap, tap, tap communicationAngela Dugan
In the 20 or so years since I joined the tech community, I moved from an attitude of "please leave me alone in my cube to code and whatever you do don't talk to me!" to well, giving talks on the importance of communication in the software world. The tools and techniques I've come to know and love have changed over time, but a few things have remained constant.
1) Communicating openly and honestly at all times is HARD
2) Speaking from a place of vulnerability is RIDICULOUSLY HARD
3) Without 1 and 2 you're going to really struggle to be an effective and happy member of ANY software team
OK, there's a 4th thing.
4) The days of working alone in your cube like a hermit are largely over for software folks. It really doesn't have to suck. I swear it doesn’t.
During my brief time with you, I’m going to rumble with some touch topics and share some of my own embarrassing and enlightening stumbles. It will include things like delivering “bad news” to your client/manager/team and feeling good about it, managing conflict with others in healthy and productive ways, and delivering feedback without feeling like you (or the receiver) will vomit. These things are all very possible, and not that hard to master once you have some key tools and insights in your tool belt.
Agile days chicago 2018 - how do you measure up?Angela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team’s effectiveness, or the organization’s effectiveness? Did those metrics seem impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, and focused on individual “productivity”. How do we collect data that drives continuous improvement and promotes an open and trust-filled environment. How does that change at scale?
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices have clearly taken the lead. This session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect across teams and organizations. We’ll dig into metrics that are relevant, interesting, AND useful, and discuss some of the common traps.
VS Live Chicago 2018 - how do you measure upAngela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, but not necessarily the ones that matter.
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures you can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how you can use them to help your teams continuously improve.
Chicago Code Camp 2018 - Building strong teamsAngela Dugan
Building the “perfect team” seems like an impossible task these days. Can a truly “cross-functional” team even be built? How do you get introverts and extroverts (yes, they DO exist in IT) to play nice? Seems like these days you practically need a degree in psychology to get this right. But you don’t.
Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with my clients and my company to develop high functioning teams. I’ve found that regardless of focus (software development, marketing, sales), there are patterns to what makes teams successful, and what can hold them back from greatness.
In this talk, I’ll cover a couple of tools for understanding the needs and strengths of your individual team members, identifying strength gaps, and action items for creating a happy and well-balanced team that can get it done!
Dev up 2017 - Half Day Workshop: Getting your agile team unstuckAngela Dugan
Whether you've been working on an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise to trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a death march and no one is participating any more, or your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings, or you have a QA team that feels buried by your fast-paced development team. These situations are unfortunately very common, and they lower team morale, lead to abandoned transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer because of it. But there's a better way! As an agile coach and consultant, I help software organizations stop the bleeding, mature their process, and develop into high functioning agile teams. And to be clear, I've made mistakes as well! I'd like to share with the audience my own experiences, including strategies that succeeded and failed in hopes of leading them down the path to getting their own teams "unstuck". I'll also give attendees an opportunity to share their own challenges, so that we can leverage those strategies to give them ideas for blasting through their own roadblocks.
Learning points:
Recognizing when your process, product, or people have gone off the rails by identifying "smells"
Review some tools and strategies that teams can leverage when they need a cognitive reset to get them back on track
How to apply tools and strategies in your own unique environments.
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, but not necessarily the ones that matter. In some cases, metrics can even have a demoralizing or counterproductive effect on the team!
When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve.
Key Learnings:
Why is it so difficult to identify meaningful metrics in the software world?
What are the best types of quality focused metrics to focus on in an agile organization?
Examples of good, bad, and ugly metrics, as well as how to analyze and interpret them
That conference 2017 - Getting your Agile Team UnstuckAngela Dugan
Whether you've been working on an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise to trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a funeral and no one is participating anymore, your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings, or your QA team is falling farther and farther behind the agile developers and feel like they’ll never catch up with their testing backlog. These are the kinds of issues I see all of the time. They lower team morale, lead to abandoned transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer because of it. But there’s a better way!
As an agile coach and consultant, I have worked with dozens of teams to stop the bleeding, strengthen their relationships, mature their processes, and help them grow into high functioning agile machines. And to be clear, I’ve made mistakes as well! I’d like to share with the audience my own experiences and lessons-learned, including both what succeeded and what failed in hopes to lead you down the path to getting your own team “unstuck”.
Visual Studio ALM and DevOps Tools WalkthroughAngela Dugan
If you're considering moving to Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services, this deck will walk you through the highlights, of which there are a TON!
Chicago Coders Conference 2017 - Metrics that matterAngela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team’s effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, but not necessarily the ones that matter. When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve.
Chicago Code Camp 2017 - Metrics that matterAngela Dugan
How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, but not necessarily the ones that matter. When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve. Key Learnings: Why is it so difficult to identify meaningful metrics in the software world? What are the best types of quality focused metrics to focus on in an agile organization? Examples of good, bad, and ugly metrics, as well as how to analyze and interpret them
If you're thinking about migrating from TFS on-premises to VSTS, it's not necessarily a simple decision as to how to get there. During this briefing we discussed some of the considerations that lead you to the right migration path, gotchas that we have encountered, and how we can help you get to VSTS quickly and effectively.
Quest 2017 Agile Workshop: Getting your agile team unstuckAngela Dugan
Whether you’ve been working in an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise and trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a funeral and no one is participating anymore or your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings. Perhaps your QA team is falling farther and farther behind the agile developers and feel like they’ll never catch up with their testing backlog. These issues lower team morale, lead to abandoned agile transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer. But there’s a better way! Stop the bleeding, mature your process, and grow into a high functioning agile machine. Join Angela, to learn from her mistakes, what worked and what failed and get your team “unstuck”. Learn some techniques and games to reinvigorate your agile teams! This tutorial is for individuals with some agile experience and will focus on the real issues that participants are struggling with today.
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
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Our reborn dolls are more than just beautiful pieces of art - they can also help alleviate stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions. Studies have shown that holding or cuddling a soft object like a stuffed animal or a reborn doll can release oxytocin, which is often referred to as the "love hormone." This hormone helps us feel calm and relaxed, reducing feelings of stress and anxiety.
In addition to their physical benefits, reborn dolls can also offer emotional support. For many people, having something to care for and nurture can bring a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Reborn dolls can also serve as a reminder of happy memories or loved ones who have passed away.
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VS Live 2021 Orlando - vst14 feedback skills
1. VST14 Feedback Skills that will Supercharge Your
Effectiveness as a Team Member or Leader!
Angela Dugan
Delivery Director and Agile Guide,
3Cloud Solutions
Level: Intermediate
5. Reasons Our Brains Run From
Giving/Receiving Feedback
I don’t want the
other person to
get mad at me
or what I am
saying.
What if they cry,
yell, or quit? I
don’t know how
to handle that
kind of conflict.
I don’t want
other people to
think that I don’t
know what I am
doing.
What if I’m doing
something
wrong? I don’t
want to get a
bad review, or
worse, fired!
11. What would YOU do?
A coworker has implemented some pretty terrible logic in the code that you are
reviewing for an upcoming sprint review
1. Tell them it is fine, you are pretty sure they’ll disagree, it will be too much work to explain
how to do it right. You plan to fix it later yourself
2. Tell them it’s fine, it will still compile as is and you don’t want to embarrass them in front of
the team. Maybe you can email them later.
3. Call it out as an example of poor code logic in the next public code review. They should have
known better. It’s a lesson no one will forget
4. Talk them through why their code was not optimal 1:1, offer an alternative suggestion for
them to implement so they can resubmit the pull request before the sprint review
13. 4 Feedback “hacks”
1. The prime directive
2. “The Clint Edmonson Memorial Pull-In”
3. “The story I am telling myself”
4. Use a framework (COIN)
*Don’t worry, Clint is alive and well!
14. Feedback Prime Directive
“Regardless of what we discover, we
understand and truly believe that everyone
did the best job they could, given what was
known at the time, their skills and abilities,
the resources available, and the situation at
hand."
19. Key Take Aways
Recognizing
“Midwest Nice”
in yourself and
others
Practice the
COIN model for
feedback, BOTH
with praise and
criticism
Challenge
yourself and
others to get
specific when
feedback feels
“fluffy” or
insincere
Seek the advice
of a good
coach who can
help you and
your team build
up feedback
muscles!