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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


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


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

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