Jan 7, 2022
This week, Dan Neumann is joined
by a repeated guest, Quincy Jordan. Today they are talking about the vital
importance of getting Agile Teams and initiatives off to a good
start.
In this episode, they discuss
the things that need to happen outside the Teams and that also need
to involve them, what elements are required to support the Team and
what to expect from them. Listen to this episode to learn more
about how to support a Scrum Team to have the best start
possible.
Key Takeaways
- Management should support the Team in its
efforts to deliver something of value to the
organization.
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- Sometimes a Team needs mentoring that comes
from outside the team.
- Establishing Team working
agreements.
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- Teams need to have working agreements to help
establish guidelines about how to do the work and communicate as a
Team.
- Conflict will happen; that is why rules of
engagement are necessary to anticipate the way in which a team will
address those potential conflicts.
- Leveraging emotions in conflict resolutions is
needed; emotions cannot be removed from a human
experience.
- Why do we care for getting off to a good start
in the first place?
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- Awareness: A team needs to know why they are
endeavoring in a particular project as well as they need to know
what is the benefit and who is benefiting from the
work.
- It is important for those on the front line to
really know how their work ties to the topline business objective;
this is the way for them to see the value of the work that they are
doing there.
- Quincy and Dan talk about the critical aspects
in launching a Team, which are covered by the methodology for
change managing called ADKAR: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge,
Ability, and Reinforcement.
- The facets of getting off to a good
start.
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- After working on the Awareness it is necessary
to make it clear how the Team is going to communicate.
- There is a benefit to anticipating how we are
going to reward behaviors that we want to perpetuate.
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Mentioned in this Episode:
Coaching Agile Teams: A
Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in
Transition, Lyssa
Adkins
Blog post by Esther
Derby:
“Building Effective Teams: Miss the Start, Miss the
End”
Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams
& Projects,
Diana Larsen and Ainsley
Niles
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