what can i learn from you?

What Can I Learn From You?

Prowareness Tech Talk TuesdaysAugust 11 2015

…… opinionated (subjective, biased…. )

This presentation is

We are growing rapidSome of the new employees feel strangersBig Sprint Days are not timeboxed and we are calm

Challenges

What does Innovation mean?

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?

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……

Improvements at Prowareness

Sprint goal gets motivational

If tool is an impediment, we use our wallpaper

It is worth looking at impediments during our retrospective

We tried to identify scrum roles by this activity

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

We Poker and talk about our openness during retrospectives

This sprint we explored the servant-leader role

We take cross functionality very seriously

We come and we reportHighly energetic presentations (read with sarcasm)No feedbackNo questionsPresentations are not timeboxedWe are waiting for it to just get over

Current state of Big Sprint Day

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…

Team presentations at Big Sprint Days

Hey, Here’s how we explore the servant leader role, may be

you try

Team presentations and focus on learning

Hey, Here’s how we failed

miserably but here’s what we

have learnt..?

Team presentations and focus on showcasing work

Hey, Here’s what we did to

get an excellent demo rating?

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?

+Excellent trainer Cool presentationAll 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?

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

Do you know the experts we have within Prowareness?

Do you know what FishEye is?

Exploiting Big Sprint Day presentations

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

I’d like to hear what worked for you and what didn’t

Mistakes or Improvements or Highlights

Let the template be there to reflect numbers- Prepare for two or three key takeaways and present

them wellGet your team on stage so we know who you areHow 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?

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