Growing Effective Agile Teams

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GrowingEffectiveAgile Teams

• _at_RoyOsherove
• Chief Scientist Bouvet.no

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Interesting Questions

• Why cant I convince my team to do TDD?
• Why cant we get over putting fires all the
  time?
• What am I supposed to do as a lead exactly?
• Why cant I seem to hire all those people I read
  about in agile books?
• What am I supposed to do with that bad apple in
  the team?
• Am I going to lose my friends?

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About

• Author
• Blogger
• Twitterer

• The Art of Unit Testing
• Notes to a Software Team Leader
• Beautiful Builds
• 5whys.com
• Osherove.com/blog
• _at_royOsherove

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Does this apply to you?
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Are you a Leader?
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If You are a Bottleneck, You are a Leader
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Scrum master, architect, DB dude, FrontEnd Dev,
Tester..
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I Wish My Team

• did more unit testing,
• made it in time to standup meeting in the
  morning,
• would have more time to do things right
• . . .

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Great Teams are Grown, not Hired
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What is your role as a leader?
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Your role is to make yourself unneeded. To
remove yourself as a bottleneck.
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Grow the team to solve their own problems without
you.
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By growing others to not need you, you will
always be wanted, appreciated and highly valuable
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If only I had a better team
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Management, done right, is a tough job

• Thats why you get paid more
• Many managers like to take the money, but not do
  all the hard parts
• Leading yourself and others -- Gerald M Weinberg

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How Do You Grow Your Team?
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How do we grow ourselves?
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Learning Learning

• Steady Growth (plateau)

Gerald M. Weinberg becoming a technical leader
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Fast Growth
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Ravines before Fast Growth
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Ravines before Fast Growth
Vim curve
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TIME
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Problem Solving Ability Phases
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How do I know which mode were in?
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Survival

• We feel pressured to decrease estimates, and we
  are already late on many tasks.
• The sentence we dont have time for that is
  spoken a lot.

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Learning

• As a leader, I am constantly requested by the
  team to solve arguments, problems, political and
  technical questions
• Or, the team is silent without requesting help,
  yet going down a road that deteriorates the
  situation.

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Leadership Styles
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Talk to the team about survival, learning andself
organization
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Problem Solving Ability Phases
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The Survivaladdiction
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How do we lose quality?Part 1

1. Dilemma Write tests, or get it done?
2. Answer No time! fix the fire, get it done!
3. Feeling good

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ONE WEEK LATER

1. Dilemma Write tests, or get it done?
2. What did we do last time? How did it feel?
3. Answer Felt good to ship. Lets do it again!
4. Feeling good

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ONE MONTH LATER

• OUR CODE SUCKS.
• WE HAVE TO do a REWRITE!!

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We need to get out of survival mode because we
want to have time to learnbecause we want to
grow our team to solve their own problems
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How do you break a survival addiction?
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You take risks and remove some future commitments
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Problem Solving Ability Phases
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Challenge

• Prepare team for delegation
• What are you going to do about it?

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Change your leadership to fitLearn some people
techniques
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Leanpub.com/teamleader
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A short song?
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Course in Oslo/London Elastic Leadership

• roy_at_osherove.com
• Leadership skills to succeed in an agile world
• (Also in non agile world)

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This is a test line
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It looks like youre doing just fine
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Its time for a song of mine
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Please deploy tonight
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Slide that card over

• And move it to done
• Tell me its all good , and that,
• That the program will run

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I have an important meeting

• So I must go away
• Its back to the old days, david
• Please compile and pray , david

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But please deploy tonight

• Please deploy tonight
• Were already so late david
• It will be alright
• Justr please deploy tonight

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Deployment did not work david

• Im angry as hell
• I know youve been doing this all night
• Try this morning as well

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What do you mean youre tired ?

• Arent you proud?
• Youre gonna be a hero david
• Just deploy to that cloud, david

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But please deploy tonight

• Please deploy tonight
• Were already so late david
• It will be alright
• Justr please deploy tonight

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BookNotes To a Software Team Leader
Thank you
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Thank You Q A!

• Contact
• Email Roy_at_osherove.com
• Twitter _at_RoyOsherove
• http//5whys.com
• Books
• Gerald M. Weinberg - Managing Teams Congruently
• Johanna Rothman - Behind Closed Doors
• Influencer - The power to change anything

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Convince Others by Knowing Behavior Forces
All Stages
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For each behavior, The world is perfectly
designed for that behavior to happen
Influencer The power to change
anything
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• Personal
• Motivation
• Ability
• Social
• Motivation
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• Environmental
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