Agile is a mindset game, it's an attitude that people carry with the intent of delivering best in class customer experience. But this is possible when everyone works with the same. An open culture, transparency, taking along fellow co-workers are some of the behavioral characteristics of agile team members
2. Pooja Wandile
Agile Practitioner, Coach, Trainer
And a trekker, sportsperson, learner
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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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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 the 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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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
Make the team more efficient
Sets discipline in the team
Agree on how individuals treat each other, provide support, communicate within and outside, cooperate, shows respect
Which working agreements have been fun and difficult for you?
If the customer is not using your product, it’s not their problem but yours
Such as addressing tech debt, adopting shift left approach, collaborative working across teams, involving ops, business, etc, shared goals, sharing working space, transparency, etc