Your team has formed, stormed and normed. It is doing standups, has retros and can recite the Agile Manifesto. Yet, it lacks spark and is still not performing at the level of a great team. So, what can you do to set the team on the path to this next level of performance? In this presentation we will explore some tools / behaviors of the Agile Coach that focus on revealing the underlying system of the team to the team. These reveals help to lift and inspire the entire team, allowing for your high performance team to form. You will also find out how 19th century painter Jean-Léon Gérôme helps in these reveals, why you want to avoid ‘Flanders’ beatnik parents’ syndrome and what is the hidden fourth reveal?

1. Agile Coaching
The team as a system

3. My name is Caoilte
The following story is based
(at least in part) on my
experiences in the last year

4. A team is born

5. Iteration 1
More pairing
Engage a UX pro
Iteration 2
Performance

6. Iteration 2
Aim for 70% Coverage
BA/QA Review
Iteration 3
Performance

7. Iteration 3
No Embedded QA
Start Mini Showcases
Iteration 4
Performance

8. Iteration 4
Embedded QA
Iteration 5
Performance

9. Iteration 5 Iteration N
Performance

10. Local maximum
Full XP
Full Kanban
The Cutting Edge
OR
OR
Performance

11. Stress
How our
brain is
wired

12. Stress
What we
actually
do

13. Chronic stress
Performance

14. Chronic stress
Performance

15. Chronic stress
Performance

16. The drift to low performance
Performance

17. The drift to low performance
Performance

18. The drift to low performance
Performance

19. High performance and the team
High Ratio of positive to negative interactions
Equals amounts of Advocacy to Enquiry
Strong Shared Vision

20. Causal Loops

21. Positive
Focus on own goals
Stress
Treating others as a
problem
Interaction

22. Collaboration
Coasting
Excessive advocacy
Illusion of consent
Consideration
Disengagement
and

23. Shared
Focus on own goals
Local Optimization
Focus on the now
Vision

24. Maybe an Agile Coach ?
● Expert in team
dynamics
● Expert in Systems
Thinking
● Expert In agile
Practice

25. So they solve all our problems ?
Agile coaches only

26. How people
change Intentional
Change
Theory

27. Shifting the
burden to the
Intervenor

28. It's not
enough to
adopt, you
have to
adapt

29. Reveal 1 : Revealing the team to the
team

30. Retros
Build
Testing
Process
Team Identity
Team Makeup
System Thinking
Team focused

31. Deep
Democracy
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pollice
Verso

32. Deep
Democracy
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pollice
Verso

33. Reveal 2 : Revealing the team
interactions to the team

34. Violent
communication

35. Levels of conflict 554321 4321
Problem to solve World
War

36. Reveal 3 : Revealing the team
members to themselves

37. Impact
feedback

38. Coaching with
Compassion

39. Has our team been helped ?

40. Positive
Focus on own goals
Stress
Treating others as a
problem
Interaction
Navigating Conflict
Awareness of
others as people
Awareness of other
viewpoints

41. Collaboration
CoastingIllusion of consent
Consideration
Disengagement
and
Going to the team
Awareness of impact on
others Role in the
team
Personal worth
Excessive advocacy

42. Shared
Focus on own goals
Local Optimization
Focus on the now
Vision
Team goals
Team values
Focus on Team Optimisation

43. A better chance
Performance

44. The
Final
Reveal
Positive Interaction
Shared
Vision
Collaboration
and
Consideration
Performance

45. The
Final
Reveal
Playfulness
Compassion
Hope
Renewal

46. Renewal and Performance
Performance

47. Renewal and Performance
Performance

48. Renewal and Performance
Performance

49. Renewal and Performance
Performance

50. A quick summary
● Aim for
o More positive interactions
o Equal amounts of advocacy to inquiry
o Strong shared vision
● Let the Team solve their own problems
(make sure they have the tools)
● Be in a team that renews

51. The Start
You are part of a team
This is your chance to be part of an
AWESOME team

52. References and Acknowledgements
References
The Role of Positivity and Connectivity in the Performance of Business Teams: A Nonlinear Dynamics
Model by
Marcial Losada and Emily Heaphy http://www.factorhappiness.at/downloads/quellen/S8_Losada.pdf
Intentional Change Theory by Richard E. Boyatzis
http://case.edu/provost/ideal/doc/Boyatzis_2006_intentional_change.pdf
Agile Coaching by Lyssa Adkins www.coachingagileteams.com
Resonant Leadership by Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee
http://www.amazon.com/Resonant-Leadership-Connecting-Mindfulness-Compassion/dp/1591395631
Causal Loops http://systemsandus.com/2012/08/15/learn-to-read-clds/
Acknowledgements
My girl , Kirsty, Karen , Sol , Jonathan , Sarah , The DiUS agile coaching sig , The DiUS Melbourne brown bag crowd

53. Thank you for listening !
Any Questions ?