Attention, please!

1. Attention, please! … about importance, urgency and awareness

2. importance and urgency IMPORTANCE adds value URGENCY avoids damage and harm … concentrate on gaining rather than avoiding ;-)

3. urgency • There is no urgency known in Scrum framework • There is only importance and due date • Everything You do should be important • Everything You do should add value • Urgency indicates that someone missed importance • Urgency drags You off the track • Fix it, if it is really important - and get back on track soon • then LEARN from it to stay always on track in future

4. Handle priority urgent important Eisenhower-Matrix everyday 2 3 why? failure! 1 4 Don‘t bother no yes yes no

5. How to avoid failure? •Attentiveness! • Is everybody aware of importance in YOUR work environment? • Is everybody attented to what YOU (pl.) do? • Falsification: how often does urgency occure?

6. How does it feel? What is the condition of Your work environment? Desert mode: - dead and dry Thunderstorm mode: - everybody hides away Headless chicken mode: - aimless motion Mechanical mode: - force with collateral damage Beehive mode: - aligned energy all around

7. Focus vs Openness Do they contradict?

8. Prepare for attentiveness • Excercises • Focus on the orange spot (directing conciousness) • Moonwalk gorilla (simple awareness) • Human energy field (there is more than You see) • Attention to Your body (there is more than You think) • Ninjutsu sensitivity exercises (bridging physical world) • Zen meditation (attention to Your mind)

9. RoTI* for this workshop • 5 finger: Significant more value gained than time invested. • 4 finger: good value. Gained more than time invested. • 3 finger: balance. Invest and result equal each other. • 2 finger: useful. Some value. Invested too much time. • 1 finger: waste. Lost time. Gained nothing. *RoTI: “Return on Time Invested”

Attention, please!

Alexander Gerber

Attention, please!