Great agile teams do not need the best individuals

Good to Great:
Great Teams don’t need the
Best Individuals
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Keynote presentation by
Vineet Patni
@patnivin
This presentation was originally used for the keynote at the
“Agile Coffee Talk, Amdocs” in Pune on September 23rd
2016. The theme of the meetup was “Good to Great”.

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Nicola Dourambeis
VP Agile Infrastructure Delivery
Salesforce.com
Owner of Purple Agility LLC
Start up, consulting and large company
veteran.
This is my favorite team
2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

Nicola Dourambeis
VP Agile Infrastructure Delivery
Salesforce.com
Owner of Purple Agility LLC
Start up, consulting and large company
veteran.
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Which is your favorite team?
What makes that team your special, favorite team? Does that team always win?

Is there a Recipe for your Team Greatness?
What made your team…
Good,
Great,
Incredible.. ?

What is Agile?
“Be quick, but don’t hurry.”
- John Wooden

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 Readiness for change, nimbleness, activity, customer focus in
motion
 The ability to both create and respond to change in order to
profit in a turbulent business environment
 Agility focuses on satisfying customer with continuous value
delivery
 Agility is in our lives naturally. Now we are trying to be agile
@ work.
 Agile is responsibility with response-ability.
Agile is..

The Agile Movement began with this..
“The… ‘relay race’ approach to product development… may
conflict with the goals of maximum speed and flexibility. Instead
a holistic or ‘rugby’ approach – where a team tries to go the
distance as a unit, passing the ball back and forth – may better
serve today’s competitive requirements.”
-Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “The New, New Product
Development Game” Harvard Business Review, Jan 1986.

Relay Race vs. Rugby
Stop running the relay race and take up rugby.

source: www.agilemanifesto.org
The Agile Manifesto came in year 2001
http://agilemanifesto.org/

12 Agile Principles
1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.
Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive
advantage.
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to
a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
4. Business people and developers must work together daily
throughout the project.
5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the
environment and support they need and trust them to get the
job done.
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying
information to and within a development team is face-to-face
conversation.

12 Agile Principles
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress.
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The
sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a
constant pace indefinitely.
9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
enhances agility.
10. Simplicity -- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done
-- is essential.
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from
self-organizing teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more
effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

 A “New” Concept or idea
 A defined process
 A panacea for all your problems
 A magic wand
Agile is NOT…

Agile is a TEAM SPORT
Software Engineering needs social skills like collaboration, mutual respect and trust.

Working in a TEAM
Which Team are you currently part of?
And Why?
Are you an Agile Team?

What is a Team?
Small Size
Complimentary skills
Common goal
Source: “The Wisdom of Teams" by Douglas K. Smith and Jon R. Katzenbach

Agile Teams
Disclaimer: Agile is not a magic wand

Agile has been a FAILURE?

Building Great Teams?
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major-risk-to-law-firms-risk-management-strategies

Or.. Great Individual Performers?

Performance Management has become obsolete
Traditional Methods
Measuring individual in isolation
Subjective measures
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The Team Success
Source: Mary Poppendieck : "The Scaling Dilemma“ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyzY5tYQFsg )

Building Great Teams (HPTs)
“Ok, I have a team. How do I make it great?”

High Performance Culture
The Agile Mindset

We over Me / I

An Inspiring Leader
Your team does need an Agile Coach.

Great Teams!
Team Work means succeeding or failing together!

It was pleasure!

Vineet Patni
Building High-Performance Teams
Lifetime Learner, passionate facilitator, coach and servant leader
Founded
Some tokens collected
in his learning journey…
Vineet Patni

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