Personal Agility

Look beyond technical skills

Dmitry Lebedev

• More than 13 years of experience in different roles

• Currently at Idea Port Riga• Likes Java and Ruby• Lives in the forest

What’s making team truly agile?

• Personal experience and practices

• Company/team experience and practices

Personal practices

• Technical skills • Some non-tech skills, personal qualities, action style & etc.

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Personal Agility(Dynamics)

Low

High

LowHigh

Ouch!

This sucks.

Awesome!

Cool, but..

Responsibility

Responsibility: Denial

Responsibility: Lay Blame

Responsibility: Justify

Mr. “I am who I am”

Responsibility: Shame

Responsibility: Obligation

Responsibility: Responsibility

Responsibility Levels

ResponsibilityObligation

ShameJustify

Lay blameDenial

Quit

Critical VS Practical

Critical• It’s not gonna work• It’s useless • It’s not right

Practical• How to get it work• How it could help to solve

problem• What we need to do to

make it right

Taking responsibility

• Limitations

• Boundaries

• Motivation

Limitations

• Physical

• Mental

• Moral

Boundaries

• Time

• Space

• Concentration

Motivation

• Values of outer world• Inner values• Ability to handle problems

Responsibility

Conclusion

Start right nowTake very small steps

Use responsibility levels