People like working in teams. That is, if there’s a good environment and culture where people can actually work together and feel valued. Then you can have great teams.
Creating the right conditions and environment that enables people to work together in teams can be hard work. But it’s important, as collaboration and teamwork are essential to make agile work to deliver value.
This talk shows how you can self-assess how your team is performing and provide you with ideas to improve collaboration and teamwork to increase the agility of your team.
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Becoming Agile is a Journey
• Self-assess
• Experiment
• Learn & adapt
70++ Tools & Checklist Assessing Agility
Self-assessments
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Assessing Teams
Do:
• Teams own assessments – provide the means
• Assess frequently
• Celebrate successes
Don’t:
• Compare teams
• Use levels as a goal
• Aim for compliance
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Organizing for Teamwork
Establish Stable Teams
Enable Diversity
Design for Improvement
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Creating a Teamwork Culture
Guide Self-organization
Stimulate Collaboration
Foster Modern Leadership
Be an Example
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Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker
Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous improvement
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
Ben Linders
Books: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
What Drives Quality Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game
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Assessing your Agility
Over 70 tools:
• Self-Assessment checklists
• Readyness checks
• Maturity assessments
• Agile health checks
• Measurements
• And much more!
Agile Self-Assessments
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Retrospectives Book
Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
By Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
amazon.com/dp/B00SWJO1DI
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Continuous Improvement
Become aware of importance of
continuous improvement,
Explore how it’s engrained in agile
software development
Suggestions that you can use in your
daily work to improve continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
Leanpub.com/continuousimprovement
“Continuous Improvement is the act of continuously doing
whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable”
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Getting More out of Agile & Lean
Practices for teams and stakeholders to develop the right
products, deliver faster, increase quality, and create
happy high performing teams.
Full Day Workshop:
Deploying practices effectively
Improve Collaboration
Tips & Trick for Agile & Lean
Improve Continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
BenLinders.com/agilelean