agile teams and collaboration: what's new about agile?
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Agile Teams and Collaboration: What’s New About Agile?
Johanna RothmanNew: Hiring Geeks That Fit
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Johanna’s General Agile Picture
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Agile Teams
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Contain all the roles
required
5-7 people is the sweet
spot
Delivers value every
iteration
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Who Are These Teams?
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How Teams Work
Working agreements
“How we do things here”
What “done” means to us
What our values are
Social contract among
members of the team
Behaviors, not practices
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Areas for Discussion for Team Working Agreements
Values:
Sustainable pace
We have core hours and we respect them
Working agreements
What done means
Timebox everything
Respect the timebox
Ground rules:
One person talking
Group norms:
How we treat meeting times
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Team Chartering
Project charters for the
project
Vision: brief and
compelling: Where are we
headed?
Release criteria:
What does done mean
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Teams Mature over Time
Two significant models of
teams to know about:
Tuckman
Hackman
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Tuckman’s Model
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
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Keep Teams Together Once the Project is Complete
Agile team members learn
how to collaborate with
each other. That learning is
expensive. Don’t waste the
investment.
Flow work through the
teams
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The Journey to Self-Organizing
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Who is Responsible for Manager led teams
Self-directed teams
Self-managing teams
Self-governing teams
Set overall direction Manager Manager Manager Team
Design the team and its organizational context Manager Manager Team Team
Monitor and manage work process & progress Manager
Team, with the
exception of hiring/firing
Team Team
Execute team task Team Team Team Team
Adapted from Hackman’s Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances, Harvard Business Press
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Hackman
Teams evolve from
manager-led to self-
organizing teams
Very few teams start as self-
managing teams
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No Multitasking in Agile
People work on one
project at a time
People work on one feature
at at time
People work on one task at
a time
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Approaches to Manage Interruptions or High Priority Requests
Leave room in the
iteration; don’t fill up on
features
Urgent queue
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High Emphasis on Collaboration
Team works together
Swarming: everyone works
together to move one
feature forward to done
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High Emphasis on Facilitation
We facilitate each other’s
work with feedback and
coaching, meta-feedback
and meta-coaching
Not a manager’s job
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Feedback and Meta-Feedback
Not evaluation or praise; feedback
When you use a peer-to-peer feedback approach:
Create an opening
Describe behavior or results
State the impact
Make a request
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Coaching and Meta-Coaching
Coaching is much more
than teaching
Offering options with
support
Example: Rule of Three
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Many Ideas About How to Scale Agile
Scrum-of-Scrums
SAFe
My ideas: Small world
networks
Choose what fits your
context
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Inspect & Adapt with Retrospectives
Periodically review the
team’s process
At the end of an iteration
At the end of a significant
deliverable
Often!
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Re-evaluate the Projects Periodically
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Distributed vs Co-located
Want co-located cross-
functional teams
Can manage with
distributed cross-
functional teams
Be wary of trying to do
agile with anything else
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Johanna’s General Agile Picture
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What Questions Do You Have?or,
What challenges do you see where you work?
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Let’s Stay in Touch...
Pragmatic Manager:
www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager
Please link with me on LinkedIn
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