Interactive discovery workshop with a concept map worksheet and a fun agile game. Explore with your group: What helps us find a user group or meetup that's right for us? What keeps us coming back and helps us grow as a group? Is it possible to run a group with a shared leadership model?

1. Growing by Sharing.
Transitioning a Group to
a Self-Directed Model.
Dana Pylayeva, Mary Pratt

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Turn and Talk:
Who Is In The Room?
1. Choose a color
of your sticker.
2. Turn to your
neighbor and
introduce yourself.

3. Co-organizer
FounderAuthor
Agile Coach,
CSM, CSPO, CSP
@DanaPylayeva
dpylayeva@gmail.com
Introduction
to DevOps
with
Chocolate,
LEGO and
Scrum Game
Dana Pylayeva
NYC Scrum User Group
Play4Agile North America
Agile Coach Camp US
2017

4. Trained with
Co-founder
NYC Scrum User
Group
Blogger
Agile Marketer,
SVP,
CSM, CSPO, PSM
@Magwep
magwep@gmail.com
Mary Pratt
Jeff Sutherland,
Ken Schwaber,
Lyssa Adkins,
Jeff Patton,
Luke Hohmann,
Rob Purdie
www.magwep.com

5. NYC Scrum User Group

7. Why Do We Come?

8. Six Group Needs Model
“Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results”
by Kathleen D. Ryan, Geoffrey M. Bellman
Connected
Changed,
Energized
Hopeful

9. He-he-he,
I am here
for
free food,
SEUs and
dates!

10. Now It’s Your Turn!
What made you join your learning
community?

11. Why Do We Stay?
Sense of
community
Celebrity
Speakers
Group
Culture
Social Capital
of the Group

12. Now It’s Your Turn!
What makes you stay with your user
group?

13. How Do We Become a
Team?
1.
Forming
4. Performing
2. Storming 3. Norming
Tuckman
Stages of
Group
Development
Can I
Trust?
Trust
no one!
Knowledge hoarding
Knowledge hidden
Knowledge sharing
Synergy
Collaboration
Knowledge Creation

14. Forming
Storming
Norming
Norming
Storming
Forming
Performing
Forming
Heartbeat of a
User Group

15. My worst user group nightmare
Table Discussion

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Dealing With a Disruptive
Behavior.
Enough, Let’s
Move On...
Group Working Agreement

17. Now It’s Your Turn!
What works in your group?

18. How do we step up?

19. Now It’s Your Turn!
What worked for you?

20. How Do We Lead?

21. Charismatic Solo Leader
Rob Purdie,
Founder of NYC Scrum User Group

22. Pair Leadership
Pair Leadership

23. Situational Leadership

24. Shared Leadership

25. Human Knot
Game
Now It’s Your Turn!

26. Human Knot Game
with a Solo Leader
1. Stand in a circle.
2. Extend your Right Arm towards the
center. Grab someone’s hand.
3. Extend your Left Arm towards the
center. Grab a different person’s hand.
4. Follow the instructions of your solo
leader to untangle.

27. Human Knot Game
with a Pair Leaders
1. Stand in a circle.
2. Extend your Right Arm towards the
center. Grab someone’s hand.
3. Extend your Left Arm towards the
center. Grab a different person’s hand.
4. Follow the instructions of your pair
leaders to untangle.

28. Human Knot Game
with a Shared Leadership
1. Stand in a circle.
2. Extend your Right Arm towards the
center. Grab someone’s hand.
3. Extend your Left Arm towards the
center. Grab a different person’s hand.
4. Collaborate as a group to untangle.

29. Now It’s Your Turn!
Lessons from the Human Knot Game

30. How Do We Grow?
2. Growing Learning
Communities
1. Growing New Leaders
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
“Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience”

31. Help Them
Grow in The
Flow!

32. Now It’s Your Turn!
What worked in your groups?

33. My Aha! Moment From This
Workshop

34. References
• Kathleen D. Ryan, Geoffrey M. Bellman
“Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams
Achieve Amazing Results”
• Jono Bacon “The Art of Community”
• Mihaly Csikszentmihaly “Flow: The Psychology
of Optimal Experience”
• Michelle Malcher “User Group Leadership”