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GrowingEffectiveAgile Teams
@RoyOsherove Chief Scientist – Bouvet.no
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Interesting Questions
• Why can’t I convince my team to do TDD?
• Why can’t we get over “putting fires” all the time?
• What am I supposed to do as a lead exactly?
• Why can’t I seem to hire all those people I read about in agile books?
• What am I supposed to do with that bad apple in the team?
• Am I going to lose my friends?
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AboutAuthor
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The Art of Unit TestingNotes to a Software Team LeaderBeautiful Builds
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Does this apply to you?
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Are you a Leader?
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If You are a Bottleneck,
You are a Leader
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#IWishMyTeamScrum master, architect, DB dude,
FrontEnd Dev, Tester..
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I Wish My Team…did more unit testing,
made it in time to standup meeting in the morning,
would have more time to do things right. . .
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Great Teams are Grown, not Hired
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What is your role as a leader?
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#IWishMyTeamYour role is to make yourself
unneeded.
To remove yourself as a bottleneck.
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Grow the team to solve their own
problems without you.
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#IWishMyTeamBy growing others to not need you,
you will always be wanted,
appreciated and highly valuable
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If only I had a better team
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“Management, done right, is a
tough job”“That’s why you get paid more”
“Many managers like to take the money, but not do all the hard parts”
Leading yourself and others -- Gerald M Weinberg
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How Do You Grow Your Team?
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How do we grow ourselves?
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Steady Growth (plateau)
Learning Learning
Gerald M. Weinberg – “becoming a technical
leader”
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Fast Growth
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#IWishMyTeamRavines before Fast Growth
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#IWishMyTeamRavines before Fast Growth
Vim curve
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Randomness adds noise
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TIME
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This applies for any bottleneck role
Architect, Designer, QA, Technical Leader, Leader..
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#IWishMyTeamProblem Solving Ability Phases
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The Survivaladdiction
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#IWishMyTeamHow do we lose quality?Part #1
1.Dilemma: Write tests, or get it done?
2.Answer – No time! fix the fire, get it done!
3.Feeling == good
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#IWishMyTeamONE WEEK LATER1.Dilemma: Write
tests, or get it done?
2.What did we do last time? How did it feel?
3.Answer – Felt good to ship. Let’s do it again!
4.Feeling == good
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#IWishMyTeamONE MONTH LATEROUR CODE SUCKS.
WE HAVE TO do a REWRITE!!
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#IWishMyTeamWe need to get out of
survival mode
because we want to have time to learn
because we want to grow our team to solve
their own problems
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How do you break a survival addiction?
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#IWishMyTeamYou take risks and remove some
future commitments
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Problem Solving Ability Phases
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Challenge
“What are you going to do about it?”
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Change your leadership to fit
Learn some people techniques
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Leanpub.com/teamleader
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Course Jan 31: Elastic Leadership
•Leadership skills to succeed in an agile world
•(Also in non agile world)
•find out more at 5whys.com
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A short song?
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This is a test line
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It looks like you’re doing just fine
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It’s time for a song of mine
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It’s late in the evening
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It’s late in the evening
•I’m wondering what words to say
•It’s so hard to breath here
•The customer’s face is gray
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And then he asks me
•Is the product alright?
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•And I say
•“yes, we deploy it all tonight”
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I check in the changes
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I check in the changes
•The code doesn’t even compile
•I wish I was home now
•Instead I fake a big smile
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And when they ask me
•Is the code alright?•I say “yes, it seems to compile
tonight’
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•I say
•“yes, it seems to compile tonight’
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I feel horrible•Because I see
•The sadness in their eyes
•When they find out that
•the product
•Doesn’t even have log files
•This thing is doomed
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•When they find out
•That the product
•Doesn’t even have log files
•This thing is doomed
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It’s time to go home now
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It’s time to go home now
•And I’ve got an aching head
•So I lock my computer
•And pray that tomorrow I’m dead
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When my wife asks me
•“Do you feel alright?”•I say “yes. Let’s watch game of
thrones tonight”
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•I say
•“yes. Let’s watch game of thrones tonight”
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I feel miserable
•Because I’ll guess
•The madness in their talk
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•When they find out
• that tomorrow
•I don’t plan to come to work
•And write my CV
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Book:Notes To a
Software Team Leader
Thank you
Courses at:Osherove.com
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Thank You + Q + A!
• Contact:
• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @RoyOsherove
• http://5whys.com
• Books:
• Gerald M. Weinberg - Managing Teams Congruently
• Johanna Rothman - Behind Closed Doors
• Influencer - The power to change anything
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Convince Others by Knowing
Behavior ForcesAll Stages
#IWishMyTeam“For each behavior, The world is
perfectly designed for that behavior to
happen” “Influencer – The power to change anything”
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•PersonalMotivation
Ability
•SocialMotivation
Ability
•EnvironmentalMotivation
•Ability
