Behavioral Aspects of Coaching

Hariprakash Agrawal [email protected]

October 03, 2015

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Behavioral Aspects of Coaching

Services Experience

About Me

Serving as CEO at OpCord and RideAlly Software Development, Test Automation, Agile Consulting, Products (RideAlly, TestOptimizer) Agile / Kanban Coach & Trainer (CSM) Agile Transformations Email: [email protected]

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Enterprise Agile Coaching & Transformation Building Agile Culture and values Training Scrum, Kanban, XP Implementing SAFe Framework Tools expert: Rally

An Entrepreneur and Enterprise Agile Coach

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Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools

Working Product over Comprehensive Documentation

Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation

Responding to change over Following a plan

Agile Manifesto – Behavioral Aspects

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

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Scrum Values

Courtesy: http://guntherverheyen.com/2013/05/03/theres-value-in-the-scrum-values/ 4

People over Process

Courtesy: https://sopinion8ed.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/enterprise-social-media-or-enterprise-social-networks/ 5

Mentors over Managers

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Collaboration over Competition

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Courtesy: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-team-spirit-business-debate-image23840765

Team Spirit over Individual Excellence

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Not everyone is sold to Agile

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Force fit of SM and PO role

Trained but behavioral aspects not considered while assigning roles One SM or PO for many teams Managers are assigned SM or PO role without adequate hand-holding

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Courtesy: http://www.implementingscrum.com/images/070604-scrumtoon.jpg

PO does not detail-out stories

Not a detail oriented person or a quite senior person or have multiple responsibilities or cannot see the forest for the trees

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Courtesy: http://www.ifunny.com/pictures/boss-vs-leader/

Scrum Master is not Servant Leader

Not able to lead the team Can get swayed by management or anyone Is not assertive Defensive nature

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Lack of Discipline, Punctuality

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Do not come on time in standups Leaving work to last minute Meetings go in tangent Speaking loud on Phones..

Developers think that Testing is not their responsibility

Courtesy: http://www.a2zmenu.com/FunAtWork/Miscellaneous/Developer-Vs-Tester.aspx 14

Courtesy: http://mootee.typepad.com/innovation_playground/2007/05/are_you_afraid_.html

People do not speak-up

Juniors are shy in front of Seniors Unnecessary fear of getting punished They just don’t care Its just not in their nature to speak-up

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Courtesy: http://www.hascode.com/2011/05/oh-jbehave-baby-behaviour-driven-development-using-jbehave/

Members are not attentive to details

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Commit without thorough thinking

Do not spend enough time on planning

We assume a lot of things

Not enough focus on risks and uncertainties

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Saying ‘Yes’ when actually wish to say ‘No’

Courtesy: http://tribefitness.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JustSayNo-300x289.jpg 18

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