Lambs & chickens AgileME Summit Dubai 2015

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AgileAnimalFarm
@ELPEDROMAJOR | PIERRE@WECOMPANY.ME
AGILE ME
Agile Middle
East Summit
Dubai April 12th 2015

45MIN. 4:30PM - 5: 15PM
WhoAmI?
SeniorLeanAgileCoach
SeniorScrumCoach&Trainer
AgileManagementCatalyst
Father,Brother&Son
CAPGEMINI, ERDF, RUEDUCOMMERCE.COM , REMIND, #PLAY14, ORES, SAP UK , KINGFISHER, EUROCLEAR GROUP, GDF SUEZ EUROPE, AXA
G R O U P, I N V I V O , C T I E , AT H O M E , A C C E N T U R E , TO U R I N G A S S U R A N C E S , C L O U D WAT T, S W I N G M O B I L I T Y, L U M E N S I O N S E C U R I T Y, W E M A N I T Y …

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H O U S E
M Y
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Pierre E. Neis
M Y O F F I C E S
Pierre E. Neis

TableOfContents
STARTI NG WI TH A
METAPHOR
PERSONAS &
BEHAVIOURS
LET ’S T RY A GA ME
DEBR IEF ING &
CLOSI NG
01 02 03 04
INTRO
PAGES 24–32PAGES 23PAGES 13–22PAGES 6–12PAGES 1–5

BA SED ON MARIO M OREIRA’S WORK
StartingWithA
Metaphor
01
01

…SlightlyCustomisedForThe
MiddleEast…

PurposeOfThisGame
• understanding the basic principles of the Agile
Culture and understanding behavior

@ELPEDROMAJOR | PIERRE@WECOMPANY.ME@ELPEDROMAJOR | PIERRE@WECOMPANY.ME
Idon’tknow.
Whatwouldwe
callit?
HeyLamb,Iwasthinkin’we
shouldopenaRestaurant.

Lamb
Awarma
HowaboutLambAwarma?

NoThanks,I’dbe
committed,butyou’donly
beinvolved!

Briefly
the chicken only gives
their eggs
Lambs have to put their flesh on
the table

BA SED ON MARIO M OREIRA’S WORK
Personas&
Behaviours
01
02

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 are assertive 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
often so quiet in their
manipulative work.
• They are dedicated to their
own success.

Seagulls
• They like to fly around the
project and not really
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 really interested in
feeling ownership of the
work.
• They typically neither
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.
• Typically, they are not
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.

ShepherdDog
• And finally no farm is
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.

PLAY A ND WORK I T OUT!
Let’sTryA
Game
01
03

LES SONS LEARNED
Debriefing&
Closing
01
04

• 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
RulesOfTheGame-Round1

CHECK
THE R ESULTS
DISCU SS
FINDINGS
TEA MMATES
TRY TO DI SCOVER
• 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
…WhatHappenedAfter 5
Minutes?

• let’s make 3 teams
• each team seats around a table
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

CHECK
THE R ESULTS
DISCU SS
FINDINGS
TEA M MATES
TRY TO DI SCOVER
animal
• the team of Lambs produced a great landscape
• the team of bulls/seagulls/cats produced…. nothing
• the team of cats and seagulls produced … nothing
Minutes?

• let’s make 1 team
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

CHECK
THE R ESULTS
DISCU SS
FINDINGS
TEA M MATES
TRY TO DI SCOVER
animal
• all the behaviours have been amplified and stress has emerged
Minutes?

…ForWhatIsItGood
For?

30MIN. 2PM - 2: 30PM
UsingPosters
In
Retrospective
ForFunTo
Understand
HowWeWere
TogetherAnd
WithOthers

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Credits
• based on Mario Moreira’s Agile Animal Farm

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