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Learning is key to agile success nurturing a learning culture on your agile team Declan Whelan

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This slide deck is about nurturing a learning culture with an agile team. The main ideas are that effective learning is what enables teams to respond to change and deliver exception value. The presentation highlights some key

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Learning is key to agile success

nurturing a learning culture on your agile team

Declan Whelan

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Learning study

accumulateknowledge

child indoorway

bird leavingnest

youth

practice continuously

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Learning

I know algebra

I know Lucy

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Culture

“How we do things around here in order to succeed.”

Schneider, 1994

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Culture

Collaboration Control

Cultivation Competence

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Learning Culture

“How we do things around here in order to succeed.”

and learnv

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“ … where people continually expand their

capacity to create the results they truly desire,

where new and expansive patterns of thinking are

nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and

where people are continually

learning to learn together”

Learning Organization

Peter SengeThe Fifth Discipline

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Personal Mastery

Mental Models

Shared Vision

Team Learning

Systems Thinking

Learning Organization

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Personal History Exercise

Face your partner and tell them:1. Your name2. How many children in your family3. A difficult or challenging thing you faced as a child

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B = f(p,e)

Esther Derby, 1994

Behaviour

Person Environment

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Bperceived = f(P,e)

FundamentalAttribution Error

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Responding to Change

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Satir Change Model

Learning

Source: http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-articles/article/the-satir-change-model.html

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Change

Response

Check Adjust

Do Plan

Value

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Learning = Value Delivered

Time

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What is Your Purpose?

• True North•Project Charter• Team Working Agreement

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Loser Ball

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Virginia Satir“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”

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Individual SafetyBuild Safety

•“invite” participation•anonymous participation•provide alternatives•lean towards the less powerful

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Seeing is Believing• Find a partner at your table• Each of you describe a product

to your partner using only words

• Draw a picture of your product• Describe the product again using

the picture and words

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How do We Learn?Auditory

Kinesthetic

Visual

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L Brain R Brain

X

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Brain Map

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Neural Circuits

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Lead with the Concrete

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Personal Learning

• Books• Conferences• Mindmaps• Reading – SQ3R– Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review

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Personal Learning

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JohnnyWhoop

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Beginner’s Mind

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.”

Shunryu Suzuki

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Draw a Hand in

45 seconds

http://www.thiagi.com/pfp/IE4H/august2005.html#99Seconds

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Plato’s Cave

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Discussion Dialog

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Team Learning

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Team Learning

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Team Communication

• ORID

ORID questionsActive listeningOpen ended questions

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Retrospective Format

Set the stageGather dataGenerate insightsDecide what to doClose

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Diverge & Converge

Source: Chris Corrigan blog: http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1265

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An answer isan invitation

to stop learning

Jean Tabaka

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Coach

Source: (2009) Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley

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Teach

Source: Phil Geldhart, “In Your Hands”

Phil Geldart, Eagles Flight

“Teachers are architects building concepts and ideas into the minds of their listeners”

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Pairing

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Create Practice Fields

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Create Learning Sessions

Brown bagsStudy groupsEtudesKatasRoad trips

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Create Learning Times

Schedule slackGold cardsLunch & learns

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Learning Workspace

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Tinkering School

http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in_action.html

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“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself.

But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.”

Shunryu Suzuki