1. The document discusses improving team presentations at Big Sprint Days by focusing on showcasing lessons learned and work, rather than just presenting status updates. It suggests sharing specific tactics or ideas that others can apply, like how a team improved cross-functionality or crafted good sprint goals. 2. The document also addresses challenges with current Big Sprint Day presentations like them being unstructured with no feedback. It notes presentations should be timeboxed and focus on 2-3 key takeaways that are useful for others. 3. The document emphasizes that presenters should consider what others can learn from their presentation and experiences, not just provide status updates, in order to make the presentations more valuable.

1. What Can I Learn From You?
Prowareness Tech Talk Tuesdays
August 11 2015

2. …… opinionated
(subjective, biased…. )
This presentation is

3. We are growing rapid
Some of the new employees feel strangers
Big Sprint Days are not timeboxed and we are calm
Challenges

4. What does Innovation mean?

5. What does Innovation mean? Does it
matter?
If you read something from a book, and try it…
– Is that innovation or experimentation?
If you try something small very different from what people around you are
doing…
- Is that innovation or it’s trivial?
If someone does something at another workplace, and you would like to try
it at your team…
- Is that innovation or plagiarism?

6. What does Innovation mean? Does it
matter?
You could quibble over innovation vs improvement!
Sometimes semantics or nomenclature does not matter
I’d like to hear what works for you. As simple as that..
… Some tactic that you learned from somewhere
…. Some business idea that your customers appreciated
….. Some new technology / tool that you tried
……

7. Improvements at Prowareness

8. Sprint goal gets motivational

9. Sprint goal gets motivational

10. If tool is an impediment, we use our
wallpaper

11. It is worth looking at impediments during
our retrospective

12. We tried to identify scrum roles by this
activity

13. We track our retrospective improvements
with owners, status, and completion date

14. We Poker and talk about our openness
during retrospectives

15. This sprint we explored the servant-leader
role

16. We take cross functionality very seriously

17. We come and we report
Highly energetic presentations (read with sarcasm)
No feedback
No questions
Presentations are not timeboxed
We are waiting for it to just get over
Current state of Big Sprint Day

18. Team presentations at Big Sprint Days
Hey, Here’s how
we improve our
cross functionality
and it works for
us, may be you
can try…
Hey, Here’s how
we craft our sprint
goals…

19. Team presentations at Big Sprint Days
Hey, Here’s how
we explore the
servant leader
role, may be you
try

20. Team presentations and focus on learning
Hey, Here’s how
we failed
miserably but
here’s what we
have learnt..

21. Team presentations and focus on showcasing work
Hey, Here’s what
we did to get an
excellent demo
rating

22. Team presentations and focus on showcasing work
Hey, Here’s what I
am going to try to
get an excellent
demo rating and
customer happiness

23. +
Excellent trainer
Cool presentation
All sessions were good
-
“I think the inductions are not effective, we forget after a week or
two”
“Need more examples for Liskovs substitution principle”
“You were not confident when presenting at a session”
“Sometimes you lose focus on the topic”
“You need to read the temperature of the room”
“I have some feedback about the Monthly Scrum presentations”
Which Feedback is important?

24. Learning from Mistakes?
Learning from others mistakes?
• That’s not my style, because their mistake is a mistake in their situation
Learning from my mistakes?
• That’s my style, because it did not work for me

25. Do you know the experts we have within
Prowareness?

26. Do you know what FishEye is?
Exploiting Big Sprint Day presentations

27. How’s your Sprint Backlog Items gonna help me?
Does burn down chart need to be at the center of the stage?
What’s the difference between Mistake of the sprint and retrospective items
to be improved on?
Big Sprint Day slide templates are becoming a screen that you can hide
behind
Exploiting Big Sprint Day presentations

28. I’d like to hear what worked for you and what didn’t
Mistakes or Improvements or Highlights

29. Let the template be there to reflect numbers
- Prepare for two or three key takeaways and present them well
Get your team on stage so we know who you are
How you helped with Prowareness vision?
We give you 2-3 minutes of our time.. What’s in it for me?
What can I learn from you?
Exploiting Big Sprint Day presentations

30. But without knowing, you may have enabled or shared information that might
have made a difference in someone
It does take courage to be different

31. What can I learn from you?
What can I learn from you?

32. So, how did I do today?
What’s your feedback for me?