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Agile Animal Farm

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A G I L E M E

Agile Middle East Summit Dubai April 12th 2015

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Who Am I?

Senior Lean Agile Coach Senior Scrum Coach & Trainer

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Table Of Contents

S TA RT I N G W I T H A M E TA P H O R

P E R S O N A S & B E H AV I O U R S

L E T ’ S T RY A G A M ED E B R I E F I N G &

C L O S I N G

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B A S E D O N M A R I O M O R E I R A’ S W O R K

Starting With A Metaphor

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… Slightly Customised For The Middle East…




Purpose Of This Game• understanding the basic principles of the Agile

Culture and understanding behavior


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I don’t know. What would we

call it?

Hey Lamb, I was thinkin’ we should open a Restaurant.




Lamb Awarma

How about Lamb Awarma?



No Thanks, I’d be committed, but you’d only

be involved!



Briefly

the chicken only gives their eggs

Lambs have to put their flesh on the table


B A S E D O N M A R I O M O R E I R A’ S W O R K

Personas & Behaviours

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Lambs• They are involved, engaged to

the project. In Scrum, it’s the purpose of the Scrum Team (Delivery Team, Scrum Master and Product Owner).

• They are committed to the work. They are working in a sheepfold with other lambs who love their work.

• When Agility is well set, they are all willing to put they « flesh-on-the-set » each day because they feel ownership of the work.

• They a re asse r t i ve and accountable for the success of the project and have a majority (if not all) of their performance goals linked directly to the success of the project and their specific Agile team.



Chicken• They come and go on the

project.

• While chickens are mostly helpful, because they are contributing their eggs, they don’t always understand the full context because they are n o t a d e d i c a t e d t e a m member.

• So occasionally they may accidentally contribute a rotten egg.

• They are not accountable for the success of the project, although they may have a s m a l l p o r t i o n o f t h e i r performance goals linked to the success of the project.



Foxes• They like to stealthily move

into and through the team seeing who has certain skills and ideas.

• Then they like to steal not only resources (Agile team members) for their own teams, but they also steal ideas.

• They are not necessarily negative, because they are o f ten so qu ie t in the i r manipulative work.

• They are dedicated to their own success.



Seagulls• They like to fly around the

p ro j e c t a n d n o t r e a l l y contribute in any manner.

• They enjoy “talking” (mostly hearing themselves speak) and pretend they are adding value, but they are only annoying the lambs (Agile team members).

• Often, they like to swoop in so it can look like they are involved (and they’ll tell others this).

• They are often quite negative, squawk a lot in a “know it all” manner, and often poop on people and their ideas.



Rats• They are deceiver types who

will use the trust of the team to gain insight into topics so they can then “rat” on what is going on to others.

• Often on Agile teams, they are really deceivers because they are really anti-Agile or just plain negative people.

• T h e y o f t e n k n o w t h e decisions that are made based on certain contexts that the team is in, but will twist the truth in order to bring the project down.

• It is important to identify these deceivers as quickly as possible and get them off the team.



Cats


• They are a lazy type on an Agile team that really do not pitch in but instead like to sleep instead.

• They are almost purposefully not assertive, have been used to just “getting by” on projects for years, and are not real ly interested in feeling ownership of the work.

• They t yp i ca l l y ne i t he r positive nor negative and simply like to be left alone.

• The other team members will begin to notice this behaviour and realise they are not really interested in becoming part of the team.


Bulls• They are command-and-

control types who think they can continue to tell their folks what to do even though they are dedicated to their Agile teams.

• Sometimes referred to as bullies, they charge right into the team and attempt to direct them to their own work and often deviate the team from building product functionality.

• Ty p i c a l l y, t h e y a re n o t interested in the Agile mindset because they see it as a challenge to their authority (technical or managerial) or don’t really understand or care about the business benefits of Agile, but instead want to maintain their own status.



Shepherd Dog• And f i na l l y no f a rm i s

c o m p l e t e w i t h o u t t h e Shepherd Dog.

• However, on an Agile farm, it cannot be just any Shepherd Dog but instead a benevolent Shepherd Dog who is good to his animals and ensure the animals have what they need to grow and prosper.

• The Agile Animal Shepherd Dog encourages, inspires, a n d a l l o w s f o r t e a m a u t o n o m y a n d s e l f organisation.



P L AY A N D W O R K I T O U T !

Let’s Try A Game

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L E S S O N S L E A R N E D

Debriefing & Closing

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• let’s make 3 teams

• each team seats around a table

• I came to each team member with « animals » cards and ask to choose an animal to play

• during 5 minutes, each team has to draw or make a prairie with 5 flowers in different colours

Rules Of The Game - Round 1



C H E C K

T H E R E S U LT S

D I S C U S S

F I N D I N G S

T E A M M AT E S

T RY T O D I S C O V E R

• from each team, team members tried to identify who played what animal

• we analysed the outcome of the round

• we tried to figure patterns out from each team behaviour

… What Happened After 5 Minutes ?



• let’s make 3 teams

• each team seats around a table

• I came to each team member with « animals » cards and assign a « role » to each of them

• we got a team of lambs, a team of bulls, seagulls and cats, a team of cats and seagull

• during 5 minutes, each team has to draw or make a prairie with 5 flowers in different colours




C H E C K

T H E R E S U LT S

D I S C U S S

F I N D I N G S

T E A M M AT E S





• the team of Lambs produced a great landscape

• the team of bulls/seagulls/cats produced…. nothing

• the team of cats and seagulls produced … nothing




• let’s make 1 team

• I came to each team member with « animals » cards and assign a « role » to each of them

• during 5 minutes, the big team has to draw or make a prairie with 5 flowers in different colours




C H E C K

T H E R E S U LT S

D I S C U S S

F I N D I N G S

T E A M M AT E S





• all the behaviours have been amplified and stress has emerged



… For What Is It Good For ?



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Using Posters In

Retrospective For Fun To

Understand How We Were Together And

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