Agile Influence: 8 Strategies to Empower You and Your Team - Joanna Plumpton,...Agile Montréal
Agile Influence: 8 Strategies to Empower You and Your Team
As part of an agile team, we are frequently in situations in which we hope to positively impact outcomes through our daily interactions. People skills are in demand but what are the tools? What can you do to influence and make your team great? Rather than logical argument, cognitive science shows the need to speak to subconscious motivators rather than our rational side. We present the strategies.
About Joanna Plumpton
I am on my continuous learning journey to develop as an Agile Coach. I have been involved professionally in application development for over 18 years, progressively fulfilling the roles of developer, team lead, development manager, business analyst, project & delivery manager, Agile Coach and Practice Manager in both Product Development and Consulting environments.
About Andy Nguyen
Andy is an agilist, coach, trainer, influencer and advocate, in constant struggle to challenge on the methodologies and the over-control of traditional management. Currently coaching new Scrum Masters and product owners and apply Agille methodologies across teams.
Three years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate SoftwareChris Smith
For the past three years Redgate has run a self-selection reteaming process to shape how teams are assigned to reflect the company’s strategy for the year ahead.
Our approach allows people to strongly influence which team they’re part of, encouraging them to move towards the work they find most engaging.
We’ve found reteaming in this way to be good for our people, our teams and our products.
Be inspired to try a self-selection process that works for you, building on the take-aways below:
* The principles of self-determination and the value of providing staff with autonomy, master & purpose
* What holds us back from self-selection both as leaders and participants
* What happened when Redgate Software ran their self-selection process (Spoiler: Good things)
* How to plan and run a considerate self-selection process - physically and remotely
Given at Lean Startup 2017.
Using Lean to Create High-Velocity Teams (Until 2:00pm)
Great products come from great teams, yet very few companies try their hand at at team design. Too often we rip job descriptions off the web, throw people together without preamble, then simmer in passive-aggressive discontent until someone eventually fires the person we’ve all been rolling our eyes at. Or worse, we avoid firing him until everyone good quits. Can Lean show us a better way to get things done?
Christina Wodtke teaches Lean Entrepreneurship at the university level and coaches executives how to create high-performing organizations. From this intersection she has helped a new kind of team emerge: the Lean Team.
What is the Lean Team?
-Hypothesizes about how we do our work, not just what work we’ll do.
-Holds no ao assumptions about the best way to get things done.
-Is constantly iterating.
-Commits to peer-to-peer accountability and coaching.
-Embraces diversity in experience and culture.
-Engages in formal reflection to increase learning velocity.
The best teams don’t just use Lean Startup methods to create breakthrough products. They use the learning cycle to reduce interpersonal conflict, communicate effectively, and get more done. In this breakout session, we’ll look at the best practices that high velocity, high-learning teams use, and how you can bring them back to your company.
#enterprise #startup #leanteams
Agile Influence: 8 Strategies to Empower You and Your Team - Joanna Plumpton,...Agile Montréal
Agile Influence: 8 Strategies to Empower You and Your Team
As part of an agile team, we are frequently in situations in which we hope to positively impact outcomes through our daily interactions. People skills are in demand but what are the tools? What can you do to influence and make your team great? Rather than logical argument, cognitive science shows the need to speak to subconscious motivators rather than our rational side. We present the strategies.
About Joanna Plumpton
I am on my continuous learning journey to develop as an Agile Coach. I have been involved professionally in application development for over 18 years, progressively fulfilling the roles of developer, team lead, development manager, business analyst, project & delivery manager, Agile Coach and Practice Manager in both Product Development and Consulting environments.
About Andy Nguyen
Andy is an agilist, coach, trainer, influencer and advocate, in constant struggle to challenge on the methodologies and the over-control of traditional management. Currently coaching new Scrum Masters and product owners and apply Agille methodologies across teams.
Three years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate SoftwareChris Smith
For the past three years Redgate has run a self-selection reteaming process to shape how teams are assigned to reflect the company’s strategy for the year ahead.
Our approach allows people to strongly influence which team they’re part of, encouraging them to move towards the work they find most engaging.
We’ve found reteaming in this way to be good for our people, our teams and our products.
Be inspired to try a self-selection process that works for you, building on the take-aways below:
* The principles of self-determination and the value of providing staff with autonomy, master & purpose
* What holds us back from self-selection both as leaders and participants
* What happened when Redgate Software ran their self-selection process (Spoiler: Good things)
* How to plan and run a considerate self-selection process - physically and remotely
Given at Lean Startup 2017.
Using Lean to Create High-Velocity Teams (Until 2:00pm)
Great products come from great teams, yet very few companies try their hand at at team design. Too often we rip job descriptions off the web, throw people together without preamble, then simmer in passive-aggressive discontent until someone eventually fires the person we’ve all been rolling our eyes at. Or worse, we avoid firing him until everyone good quits. Can Lean show us a better way to get things done?
Christina Wodtke teaches Lean Entrepreneurship at the university level and coaches executives how to create high-performing organizations. From this intersection she has helped a new kind of team emerge: the Lean Team.
What is the Lean Team?
-Hypothesizes about how we do our work, not just what work we’ll do.
-Holds no ao assumptions about the best way to get things done.
-Is constantly iterating.
-Commits to peer-to-peer accountability and coaching.
-Embraces diversity in experience and culture.
-Engages in formal reflection to increase learning velocity.
The best teams don’t just use Lean Startup methods to create breakthrough products. They use the learning cycle to reduce interpersonal conflict, communicate effectively, and get more done. In this breakout session, we’ll look at the best practices that high velocity, high-learning teams use, and how you can bring them back to your company.
#enterprise #startup #leanteams
MHA2018 - It's a "self-organizing" team -- how can I help them? - Erika LenzAgileDenver
"Your teams seem to be working ok -- they attend meetings, stories move across the board, most work gets done, eventually. But when a problem comes up, they point fingers or scatter like ants in a rainstorm. Why aren't they proactive? Why don't they have a sense of ownership? Why don't they collaborate and participate in decision-making? You told them they were self-organizing!!!
""Self-organization"" is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Agile. Research shows that most high-performing teams are self-organizing. Why, then, are high-performing teams so rare?
This talk will help participants accomplish the following learning objectives:
* Be able to distinguish between the four types of team (manager-led, self-managing, self-organizing, self-governing).
* Identify what kind of team(s) they are working with.
* Understand the types of authority teams need to have to be self-organizing.
* Understand the types of support needed from managers, scrum masters, and others.
* Identify behaviors they can model / exhibit to help their teams become more self-organizing.
This is primarily a lecture format, interspersed with table or paired discussions. "
Given at UXDC
From Starchitects to Design Gurus, the lone designer-hero has been our model for creating impact. But it’s a complete lie. The complex software, smart devices and connected information environments we create require multidisciplinary teams. So we must spend a lot of time getting teamwork right, right?
Sadly, no.
Instead we rip job descriptions off the web, throw people together without preamble, simmer in passive-aggressive discontent until we eventually fire the person we’ve all been rolling our eyes at. Or worse, we avoid firing him until everyone good quits.
It’s time to give teams the same attention and craft we give our products. Christina will share the lessons from top companies in the Silicon Valley for you to take back to your teams. It doesn’t matter if you are a manager or a peer leader, these approaches will make your team thrive. Awesome products come from awesome teams, so it’s time to stop doing business as usual and design a team for impact.
Turn a Group Into a Team. About team size, diversity, and more.Shiftup
Discover in this deck our first exclusive webinar for Shiftup Explorers and Facilitators: Turn a Group into a Team (about team size; diversity; and more), hosted by Jurgen Appelo
Originally given at MIGS2012, this presentation describes the high standard that should be applied to leaders in the video games industry. It also gives examples of how to improve and a description of what you can expect in an organization that focuses on quality leadership.
Email me for the full deck with notes, additional research results, and links to all of the studies backing up the statements made herein.
http://www.fullergameproduction.com
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.
Talk held in London, 17 May 2016, in Psychology of Agile Scrum group. Hosted by Consol Partners.
http://www.meetup.com/London-Scrum-Meetup/events/229458830/
It’s always a people problem (much ado2016)James Shew
This is a talk I presented at Agile Vancouver's 2016 conference "Much Ado About Agile 2016".
It is about how using agile effectively and having a more successful agile transformation requires truly acknowledging how much of a people problem it is.
There are some suggestions about what you can try to focus on this more that are hopefully practical, although not necessarily easy, solutions.
These slides are from the second session Mark Levison and I did at Agile2010 (6/11/2010). Mark's contact information is mark@agilepainrelief.com,
@mlevison. Mine is roger@moonriseconsulting.com, @rwbrown.
MHA2018 - It's a "self-organizing" team -- how can I help them? - Erika LenzAgileDenver
"Your teams seem to be working ok -- they attend meetings, stories move across the board, most work gets done, eventually. But when a problem comes up, they point fingers or scatter like ants in a rainstorm. Why aren't they proactive? Why don't they have a sense of ownership? Why don't they collaborate and participate in decision-making? You told them they were self-organizing!!!
""Self-organization"" is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Agile. Research shows that most high-performing teams are self-organizing. Why, then, are high-performing teams so rare?
This talk will help participants accomplish the following learning objectives:
* Be able to distinguish between the four types of team (manager-led, self-managing, self-organizing, self-governing).
* Identify what kind of team(s) they are working with.
* Understand the types of authority teams need to have to be self-organizing.
* Understand the types of support needed from managers, scrum masters, and others.
* Identify behaviors they can model / exhibit to help their teams become more self-organizing.
This is primarily a lecture format, interspersed with table or paired discussions. "
Given at UXDC
From Starchitects to Design Gurus, the lone designer-hero has been our model for creating impact. But it’s a complete lie. The complex software, smart devices and connected information environments we create require multidisciplinary teams. So we must spend a lot of time getting teamwork right, right?
Sadly, no.
Instead we rip job descriptions off the web, throw people together without preamble, simmer in passive-aggressive discontent until we eventually fire the person we’ve all been rolling our eyes at. Or worse, we avoid firing him until everyone good quits.
It’s time to give teams the same attention and craft we give our products. Christina will share the lessons from top companies in the Silicon Valley for you to take back to your teams. It doesn’t matter if you are a manager or a peer leader, these approaches will make your team thrive. Awesome products come from awesome teams, so it’s time to stop doing business as usual and design a team for impact.
Turn a Group Into a Team. About team size, diversity, and more.Shiftup
Discover in this deck our first exclusive webinar for Shiftup Explorers and Facilitators: Turn a Group into a Team (about team size; diversity; and more), hosted by Jurgen Appelo
Originally given at MIGS2012, this presentation describes the high standard that should be applied to leaders in the video games industry. It also gives examples of how to improve and a description of what you can expect in an organization that focuses on quality leadership.
Email me for the full deck with notes, additional research results, and links to all of the studies backing up the statements made herein.
http://www.fullergameproduction.com
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.
Talk held in London, 17 May 2016, in Psychology of Agile Scrum group. Hosted by Consol Partners.
http://www.meetup.com/London-Scrum-Meetup/events/229458830/
It’s always a people problem (much ado2016)James Shew
This is a talk I presented at Agile Vancouver's 2016 conference "Much Ado About Agile 2016".
It is about how using agile effectively and having a more successful agile transformation requires truly acknowledging how much of a people problem it is.
There are some suggestions about what you can try to focus on this more that are hopefully practical, although not necessarily easy, solutions.
These slides are from the second session Mark Levison and I did at Agile2010 (6/11/2010). Mark's contact information is mark@agilepainrelief.com,
@mlevison. Mine is roger@moonriseconsulting.com, @rwbrown.
Measuring team performance at spotify slideshareDanielle Jabin
How do we actually know if our teams are doing well? Is gut instinct enough? Furthermore, in a rapidly growing organization such as Spotify, how can we ensure some sort of consistency in our baseline level of Agile knowledge across the technology, product, and design organization?
In this presentation, I’ve shared techniques we have developed and use at Spotify to benchmark health and performance for our teams and some tactics we use to bring them closer to—and beyond!—being the best teams they can be.
Journal Multimedia 30th Anniversary, 11/7/14
Juggling the Possibilities! Presentation Slides
A fun, interactive session to motivate and empower staff to think more creatively and work together more effectively.
In this session, we explore...
How to Create a Dynamic Balance in Work and Life by:
- Strengthening Connections between the "Balls" we Juggle
- Exercising Flexibility, Patience and Consistent Practice
- Adopting a Positive Outlook and Viewing Obstacles as Opportunities
- Learning from the Drops!
- Prioritizing Tasks
How to Create Change by:
- Exploring Innovative Solutions to Build Relationships with and Offer Value to Clients and Co-workers.
- Taking Risks and Trying Something New!
- Using Methods of Creative Problem Solving to Create a Plan of Action
- Utilizing Strategies of Effective Collaboration
Agile soft skills suitecase - iad 2011Fabio Armani
An Agile soft-skill suite case: set of values, principles and practices for agile and lean coaching.
During this presentation will be described and discussed a large set of agile coaching skills.
One-on-one reviews with management are crucial to delivering supportive, constructive and developmental feedback. This communication allows employees to improve their performance and develop their potential for future opportunities. Presently, many organizations are eliminating their outdated and indefensible performance appraisal programs with a new approach to talent development. In this interactive session, discover the principles and practices associated with conducting successful one-one-ones.
this presentation gives basic understanding of What is coaching, Why coaching, Skills required to be a coach, Coaching arc of conversation and basics of coaching models.
1. Resolving Resistance
to Change
Rachel Davies
A bit about me
• Software developer
• Agile since 2000
• CSM in 2003
• Author of “Agile Coaching”
• Conference organizer
Agile Coaches Gathering,
XP2011, etc
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2. Agile Coach
helps teams grow strong in Agile practice
A coach supports team
rather than setting direction
Agile Coach
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3. Coaching is about Change
To improve we must change!
Change Across
Teams
Individuals Organization
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4. Expect Resistance to Change
Satir Change Curve
Why do people resist Change?
This team is using old tools
How can you influence them to change?
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6. Author: J. Richard Hackman
Many books about
Coaching are about
coaching individuals.
Hackman’s book covers
coaching teams.
Hackman Explains
Three kinds of coaching intervention:
• Motivational - improves effort by minimizing
free riding and building shared commitment
• Consultative - improves process by reducing
thoughtless habits and fostering invention based
on situation
• Educational - improves knowledge and skill
You can combine these!
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7. Consider Resistance as a
Resource
Article: Dale Emery
http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/
Dig Deeper
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8. Listening
Listening
Why must a coach listen?
• Show respect
• Gather data
• Learn feelings/opinions
• Encourage
• …?
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9. Big Picture Focus
Step up to see big picture
Force Field Analysis
Desired change from current state
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10. Force Field Analysis
Remove barriers and amplify forces for change
Prepare the Ground
Create an
environment for
the team to grow
their own agile
practice.
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11. What do we really want?
Being Agile is not usually the real goal
Share the Vision
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12. Identify concerns
Make blockers visible
Visible Feedback
• Help the team make
information concerning
their work more visible
– Passing tests
– User satisfaction
– Value delivered
– Work-in-progress limits
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15. Encourage Ideas
Ask the team how
they would solve
the problems
Consider more than
one solution!
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Go with the energy of the team
What do the team want to try?
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16. Working Agreements
Start the project with a workshop to agree how
the team wants to work together.
• Make agreements
• Keep them
• Review when they are broken
Build Trust
T = (C + R + I ) / S
Where:
T = Trust
C = Credibility
R = Reliability
I = Intimacy
S = Self-orientation
Book: “The Trusted Advisor” by Maister, Green, & Galford
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17. Be Patient
Change takes time
Further Reading
• “Agile Coaching” by Rachel Davies & Liz Sedley
• “Resistance as a Resource” by Dale Emery
http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/
• Virginia Satir talks about Status Quo
http://web.me.com/sbuckbee1/Satirs_Process_of_Change/Status_Quo.html
• “Succeeding with Agile” by Mike Cohn
• “The Trusted Advisor” by David Maister
• “Managing Transitions” by William Bridges
• “Fearless Change” by Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns
• “Leading Teams” by Richard Hackman
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