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Welcome to The Team! Practices that supercharge teams
Presented by Adam Zolyak Project Manager at POSSIBLE Mobile
August 18, 2015 at 2015 360iDev Conference
Before We Dive In
You may already know about these practices.
But do you do them?
But do you teach them to others?
Many of these practices are common sense.
But they require discipline, courage, and commitment to
do them well.
Purpose
A Single Product Owner+ Helps teams to understand business
goals and users
+ Makes quick decisions and provides quick feedback
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A Ready Backlog+ Empowers team to work on
the next most valuable thing
+ Ready means prioritized, estimated, and has #AllTheThings
Ready
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Focus
Iterations+ It’s tangible to plan and focus on 1-2 weeks
+ Provides a rhythm for work and recurring inspection and adaptation
Focus
Stop Starting, Start FinishingReady Doing (Max 2) Done+ Limiting work in progress
encourages team members to swarm and help each other
+ Multitasking…
Focus
Work on Related Things+ Working on related things
together
+ Reduces context switching
+ Helps create a cohesive user experience
Ready
Theme A
Theme B
Synchronization
Diverge and Converge+ Diverge to generate ideas,
leveraging the team’s diversity and wisdom
+ Converge to make a plan / find a solution
Synchronization
Visualize Work / Process+ Easier to see bottlenecks, stagnation,
and status Ready Doing (Max 2) Done
Inspect / Adapt
Seeing Is Understanding+ Seeing provides richer
communication vs. words alone
+ Use comps on walls, builds and demos, and pairing to understand each other and build empathy
+ “Don’t Tell Me, Show Me”
Demo Time!
Inspect / Adapt
Play Pingpong, Eat Lunch+ Take time to have fun and enjoy each
other’s company
+ Hanging out help to build understanding, empathy, and camaraderie