following your fear - agile 2017

Following Your Fear

How to do the things you’ve always wanted to do

8’s

Warm Up

Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharron

Email: todd@toddcharron.com

Organizational RevolutionistImprovisor

Fear Follower

Agile Improv

Fear

Let me tell you a story...

Improv

1994

Opening: Monologues

3 Scenes (1A, 2A, 3A)

Group Game

3 Scenes (1B, 2B, 3B)

Group Game

3 Scenes (1C, 2C, ?)

2002

I Suck

Harold ClassWith David Shore

Be intentional about about what you want

Lesson Learned...

Harold ClassWith David Shore

I Suck

When you act out of fear, your fears come true

- David Bayles & Ted Orland

Lesson Learned...

I Suck

I Love To Fail

And

We have to have the freedom and permission to fail

Lesson Learned...

One man Harold

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Lesson Learned...

2005

Agile

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.

As a child, I decided to believe the opposite of what anyone told me.

- Keith Johnstone

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.

Agile

Fear Loss

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.

2009

Solo ImprovWorkshop

With Andy Eninger

Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.

- David Bayles & Ted Orland

Lesson Learned...

2010Agile Coach Camp Canada

Attack the stage

Lesson Learned...

You have to do an Improv session tomorrow

Michael Sahota

Yes and...

Lesson Learned...

How we hold fear

Pain Power

Choice

Action

EnergyDepression

Helplessness

Paralysis

Fatalism - The fear that your fate is in your own hands, but that your hands are weak

- Joseph Conrad

Attack of the stickies!

The Haunted Conference Room!

If you're afraid of failure, then you fall back on the things you've done in the past. - Wayne Brady

Harold Scrum

Scrum = Training Wheels Agile

All the things we say you shouldn't do when you start, in the end, of course you can.

For pleasure, but not from fear.

- Keith Johnstone

2011Solo Improv?

Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.

- David Bayles & Ted Orland

Lesson Learned...

We suffer more in imagination than reality

- Seneca

Lesson Learned...

2012

June 12, 2012

http://bit.ly/soloimprov

Photos courtesy: Colleen Yates

I Didn’t Suck

I Didn’t Fail

And

Preparation > Planning

Lesson Learned...

Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.

- David Bayles & Ted Orland

Lesson Learned...

Continually push ourselves outside of our comfort zones.

Lesson Learned...

canvas.followyourfearday.com

Discuss with a partner or group of three

Eric Floresca - @clickeric

Photo courtesy: Colleen Yates

Eric Floresca - @clickeric

Lauren Dowell

Post what you’re going to do and when you’re going to do it somewhere public

#Agile2017 #FYFD

Most of being good at the work of it is to get over fear.

That everything that corrupts it comes from fear. Fear is the root. It brings that ego to the forefront of “How am I doing? How’s it going? How am I being perceived right now?”

I think it’s not to overcome fear. Fear just disappears. It’s just not there.

This faith, this trust, and this confidence, when those things are in place, there’s no room for anything else.

- TJ Jagodowski

Todd CharronTwitter: @toddcharron

Email: todd@toddcharron.com

Improv Your Agile or Scrum Stand-uphttp://bit.ly/agileimprov

Thanks!

Be intentional about about what you want

Lessons Learned...

When you act out of fear, your fears come true

We have to have the freedom and permission to fail

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Those who challenge their fears, continue, those that don't, quit.

Attack the stage

Yes and...

We suffer more in imagination than reality

Preparation > Planning

Continually push ourselves outside of our comfort zones.

Questions?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sloth_rider/383791267/http://www.flickr.com/photos/toffehoff/244870162/http://www.flickr.com/photos/slopjop/1791316530/http://www.flickr.com/photos/majcher/222475415/http://www.flickr.com/photos/majcher/222504306/http://www.flickr.com/photos/majcher/222497914/http://www.flickr.com/photos/asishow/5740951638/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mooshuu/5963676470/http://www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland/4513135340/http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4749431651/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nostri-imago/3298224405/http://www.flickr.com/photos/daleharvey/729579451/http://www.flickr.com/photos/jylcat/538008079/http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/6797909924/http://www.flickr.com/photos/donotlick/4883925774/http://www.flickr.com/photos/kerryvaughan/3783361474/http://www.flickr.com/photos/robboudon/3040333241/http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5131269843/http://www.flickr.com/photos/63831706@N08/6021545393/http://www.flickr.com/photos/brainchildvn/2338888802/http://www.flickr.com/photos/candiedwomanire/3397197237/http://www.flickr.com/photos/wearey0ung/7576744752

Photos: