The very first value of the agile manifesto starts with individuals and interactions over processes and tools. This shows how important is the human angle in agile. In the agile world, all the time we talk about change in mindset, human values, servant leadership, respect, working together, etc. But do we practice this in our day to day to life? If yes, how many teams are confident that they are an ideal example that truly adheres to this principle? We can hear teams saying ‘my team member did this and your team member did that’ while working on the same project. Such behavior is especially very typical in large enterprises. Delivery frequently, talk to your customers frequently, communicate effectively are some of the important behaviors of successful teams. This interactive talk is an attempt to ignite such thoughts for teams that are new to agile adoption as well as for the established teams and assess themselves on the behavior patterns.

1. REGIONAL SCRUM GATHERING
INDIA 2017
BANGALORE | SEPTEMBER 6-7
Agile Team Behaviors
Driven by agile values and principles

2. Pooja Wandile
Agile Practitioner, Coach, Trainer
And a trekker, sportsperson, learner
Connect with me
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pooja-wandile/
@poojawk
pooja.wandile@gmail.com

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Are agile team behaviors different than others?

4. Commitmen
t
Focus
OpennessRespect
Courage
SCRUM
VALUES

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Quickly go from planning, to designing, to
coding, testing and deliver
Get stories to Done-Done collectively
Share an incident when you had to swarm
on stories, how was the experience?
Swarming

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Setting Working Agreements
They set their own ground rules,
shared values to live by

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Making People Awesome
Deliver WOW customer experience
Experiment and Learn new things
Focus on delivering value consistently, build
competencies
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a habit” -Aristotle

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Challenging The Status Quo
But, you know….that’s the
way we’ve always done it
Desire to challenge the Status Quo
Share such instances when you were able to shake up legacy set up, what did you do?

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Agile teams have power and freedom to achieve its goals its own way
Power and freedom comes with responsibility
Do you see it being misused under the disguise of empowered teams?
Empowerment and Freedom

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Conflict Resolution
Posses great conflict resolution skills
Doesn’t shy away from conflicting situations and difficult
conversations
Engages in collaboratively team decision making
What have been your reasons for conflicts?
You have got the Key to
Unlock difficult situations

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Converting resistance and reluctance into fun
Making the Unwanted Desirable
Stay Positive and
Make it happen

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Servant Leadership
One of the most distinct characteristic of agile leadership

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And Ultimately

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Have Fun
Agile teams know how to celebrate success and have fun at work
What’s your way of having fun?

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Myths and Facts
Associating agile with anarchy, ’do what you like’, self organization leads to chaos
‘Manager’ title does not exists
Agile teams can thrive in any environment
People in agile teams are more inclined to self-organization
Teams are so busy that they never get time to learn new things

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Parting Thoughts
Working as a Team is extremely important leaving ‘OTHER’ things aside
Non alignment of objectives at the executive level won’t take the teams far
Multi skilled is not a choice
Taking small steps at a time is better than going all out
It’s a journey not a destination

17. Thank You
@poojawk
pooja.wandile@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pooja-wandile/
We are a unit, not one man
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