Where to start looking at the system conditions? There’s so many things to consider that we need to be focused and prioritize our efforts. Pietro suggests we look at the symptoms that are already there. Identifying the symptoms will help you understand where to focus your efforts to understand the system you work within.
About Pietro Di Bello
Pietro is a passionate coder, he likes to build products that can change the life of people. He is also a coach and a trainer, he feels proud when he can help his teammates become greater every day at their job. He is an agile dev. He tries to live the agile principles in his professional life.
You can link with Pietro Di Bello on LinkedIn and connect with Pietro Di Bello on Twitter.
Success is an ever changing end stage for us as Scrum Masters. We need to update our definition of success as we learn more about the teams, and their environment.
Pietro asks us to keep in mind the happiness of the team and the ability of the team members to grow, and then run with it! We also discuss how to measure happiness, motivation and other important metrics for the team.
About Pietro Di Bello
Pietro is a passionate coder, he likes to build products that can change the life of people. He is also a coach and a trainer, he feels proud when he can help his teammates become greater every day at their job. He is an agile dev. He tries to live the agile principles in his professional life.
You can link with Pietro Di Bello on LinkedIn and connect with Pietro Di Bello on Twitter.
Change is a constant in our work. We need to have a large toolbox of tools that can help us keep the momentum and define what is the objective of the change effort. Pietro describes some of the tools he’s used in the past and why he thinks they are important.
During this episode we talk about the book Lean Change Management by Jason Little.
About Pietro Di Bello
Pietro is a passionate coder, he likes to build products that can change the life of people. He is also a coach and a trainer, he feels proud when he can help his teammates become greater every day at their job. He is an agile dev. He tries to live the agile principles in his professional life.
You can link with Pietro Di Bello on LinkedIn and connect with Pietro Di Bello on Twitter.
There are many things we need to keep in mind when working with teams. Many topics that are either urgent, or recurring, or even just need our attention. Having a list of things to keep in mind is useful, so Pietro suggests we keep these 5 problems in mind to help teams avoid self-destructing patterns.
About Pietro Di Bello
Pietro is a passionate coder, he likes to build products that can change the life of people. He is also a coach and a trainer, he feels proud when he can help his teammates become greater every day at their job. He is an agile dev. He tries to live the agile principles in his professional life.
You can link with Pietro Di Bello on LinkedIn and connect with Pietro Di Bello on Twitter.
When we start working with a team we need to focus on the growth and the development of that team. But we should also keep our eyes open for the 2 other dimensions of success. In this episode we discuss all 3 dimensions of success according to Pietro.
About Pietro Di Bello
Pietro is a passionate coder, he likes to build products that can change the life of people. He is also a coach and a trainer, he feels proud when he can help his teammates become greater every day at their job. He is an agile dev. He tries to live the agile principles in his professional life.
You can link with Pietro Di Bello on LinkedIn and connect with Pietro Di Bello on Twitter.
Teams often get stuck complaining about things beyond their control in retrospectives. The Circles of Influence help the team understand what they can affect and what they need to influence or just leave as is. This helps the team understand the system conditions and decide what to work on without feeling disempowered.
About Paul Valitutto
Paul is a Scrum Master that is passionate about continuous improvement and team building. And he truly believes that its that Scrum Master's job to deliver a high performing team to the organization.
You can link with Paul Valitutto on LinkedIn and connect with Paul Valitutto on Twitter.
Organizations are about developing products and services. We as Scrum Masters have a different focus. We are there to help teams reliably deliver value in a predictable way. By helping teams deliver reliably we allow the Product Owners to focus on what they are best at: defining and detailing the vision of the product.
About Paul Valitutto
Paul is a Scrum Master that is passionate about continuous improvement and team building. And he truly believes that its that Scrum Master's job to deliver a high performing team to the organization.
You can link with Paul Valitutto on LinkedIn and connect with Paul Valitutto on Twitter.
Paul reminds us that we can’t change everything at one go. So we need to assess the level of change that the teams are willing or ready to accept. This can be achieved by working on one change a team, prioritize and work on the list by priority order.
About Paul Valitutto
Paul is a Scrum Master that is passionate about continuous improvement and team building. And he truly believes that its that Scrum Master's job to deliver a high performing team to the organization.
You can link with Paul Valitutto on LinkedIn and connect with Paul Valitutto on Twitter.
Teams are interrupted and affected by what Paul calls “drive-by requirements”. Requirements that are delivered while passing by the team. But can the team accept all of those. We want to serve and help our stakeholders, but if we say “yes” too often we end up disappointing both stakeholders and ourselves. So we need to learn to help our teams say NO.
About Paul Valitutto
Paul is a Scrum Master that is passionate about continuous improvement and team building. And he truly believes that its that Scrum Master's job to deliver a high performing team to the organization.
You can link with Paul Valitutto on LinkedIn and connect with Paul Valitutto on Twitter.
Sometimes as Scrum Masters we get too involved with the team’s work. We spend time trying to help the team coming up with a solution instead of helping them take ownership and own the process themselves. Paul asks us to ask questions, but let the teams lead the solution definition.
About Paul Valitutto
Paul is a Scrum Master that is passionate about continuous improvement and team building. And he truly believes that its that Scrum Master's job to deliver a high performing team to the organization.
You can link with Paul Valitutto on LinkedIn and connect with Paul Valitutto on Twitter.
If fish are dying in an aquarium, we should look into the conditions of that aquarium and not try to coach the fish to survive against all odds. The same should happen in organizations, and tools like Spotify’s Squad Health-check or the Agility Health Radar can help us know if our teams are thriving or dying in the aquarium that are our organizations.
About Kiryl Baranoshnik
Kiryl Works and lives in Minsk, Belarus. He is an experienced ScrumMaster and Agile Ambassador with EPAM Systems. Accredited ICAgile trainer with AgileLAB. Co-founder and leader of a local Agile/PM community. Former software developer.
You can link with Kiryl Baranoshnik on LinkedIn and connect with Kiryl Baranoshnik on Twitter.
Many define the success of the scrum master as a point when the scrum master can step back and let the team manage themselves with little or no help. But when do we know that a team is ready? Kiryl shares with us 4 signs that the team might be ready to take their future into their own hands.
About Kiryl Baranoshnik
Kiryl Works and lives in Minsk, Belarus. He is an experienced ScrumMaster and Agile Ambassador with EPAM Systems. Accredited ICAgile trainer with AgileLAB. Co-founder and leader of a local Agile/PM community. Former software developer.
You can link with Kiryl Baranoshnik on LinkedIn and connect with Kiryl Baranoshnik on Twitter.
Bonus schemes are everywhere, in almost every organization. But do they work? Kiryl shares with us a story of how Merit Money, a Management 3.0 practice was implemented in his team and how it helped create the right kind of culture in that organization.
About Kiryl Baranoshnik
Kiryl Works and lives in Minsk, Belarus. He is an experienced ScrumMaster and Agile Ambassador with EPAM Systems. Accredited ICAgile trainer with AgileLAB. Co-founder and leader of a local Agile/PM community. Former software developer.
You can link with Kiryl Baranoshnik on LinkedIn and connect with Kiryl Baranoshnik on Twitter.
Risk-aversion is a good idea in general, but it can turn into such a conservative approach that the project ends up failing. In this episode we discuss this anti-pattern and how risk-aversion can be balanced by a deliberate effort to improve the quality of our development process.
About Kiryl Baranoshnik
Kiryl Works and lives in Minsk, Belarus. He is an experienced ScrumMaster and Agile Ambassador with EPAM Systems. Accredited ICAgile trainer with AgileLAB. Co-founder and leader of a local Agile/PM community. Former software developer.
You can link with Kiryl Baranoshnik on LinkedIn and connect with Kiryl Baranoshnik on Twitter.
Kiryl shares with us a story of a team that wanted to change, they wanted to improve their ways of working. But they faced a massive challenge: their client did not want to change.
How do we help client organizations change when we are outsiders? One tip: seek the help of an experienced colleague and listen to this episode for ideas on how to make it happen.
About Kiryl Baranoshnik
Kiryl Works and lives in Minsk, Belarus. He is an experienced ScrumMaster and Agile Ambassador with EPAM Systems. Accredited ICAgile trainer with AgileLAB. Co-founder and leader of a local Agile/PM community. Former software developer.
You can link with Kiryl Baranoshnik on LinkedIn and connect with Kiryl Baranoshnik on Twitter.
The answer to “how do we grow trust in a team” is always: step-by-step. Issam shares with us some steps we can take to grow trust in and with our teams. He also shares ideas on how we can create the safe environment we need for trust to grow.
About Issam Sedki
Scrum master and agile coach with more than 12 years experience on software developement in many countries. With various certifications ranging from project management to Agile and Scrum. Certified PMP professional scrum master, cobit5, pmi agile certified practionner. Issam has been through a lot in this industry.
You can link with Issam Sedki on LinkedIn.
Issam shares with us the list of questions and aspects he looks at when evaluating his work as a Scrum Master. He also shares with us many tips that help us understand how the team is doing in each of those aspects. In this episode we share lots of detailed questions and symptoms we can look at to assess the team’s behaviour and our success.
About Issam Sedki
Scrum master and agile coach with more than 12 years experience on software developement in many countries. With various certifications ranging from project management to Agile and Scrum. Certified PMP professional scrum master, cobit5, pmi agile certified practionner. Issam has been through a lot in this industry.
You can link with Issam Sedki on LinkedIn.
If we help our teams too well, they may become dependant on our presence to solve the problems that they should be able to solve on their own. Issam shares a story about the “let me answer that” anti-pattern, where the Scrum Master takes responsibility for answering questions that the team should answer on their own. We discuss the consequences of that anti-pattern and how to get out of it!
About Issam Sedki
Scrum master and agile coach with more than 12 years experience on software developement in many countries. With various certifications ranging from project management to Agile and Scrum. Certified PMP professional scrum master, cobit5, pmi agile certified practionner. Issam has been through a lot in this industry.
You can link with Issam Sedki on LinkedIn.
Teams often say “yes” way too often. In fact, saying “no” is one of the lost messages of Scrum that popularized the phrase: “The Art of the Possible”. Sometimes teams act as if the phrase had been “The Art of the Impossible”. But what is a Scrum Master to do when the team focuses so much on saying “yes” that they overcommit?
About Issam Sedki
Scrum master and agile coach with more than 12 years experience on software developement in many countries. With various certifications ranging from project management to Agile and Scrum. Certified PMP professional scrum master, cobit5, pmi agile certified practionner. Issam has been through a lot in this industry.
You can link with Issam Sedki on LinkedIn.
Self-organization can unleash the productivity in a team. It can transform the way teams work and take them to very high levels of productivity and effectiveness. But there are conditions required for self-organization to happen. You can’t just order people to self-organize, and Issam shares with us some of the conditions he sees as required before self-organization can happen.
About Issam Sedki
Scrum master and agile coach with more than 12 years experience on software developement in many countries. With various certifications ranging from project management to Agile and Scrum. Certified PMP professional scrum master, cobit5, pmi agile certified practionner. Issam has been through a lot in this industry.
You can link with Issam Sedki on LinkedIn.
Tony shares with us a huge toolbox and many tips on how to use Retrospectives as a tool to understand the system conditions that affect the teams we work with. Listen how these tools helped one team member understand the negative consequences his success had in other teams.
About Tony Richards
Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.
You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.
Tony quotes Basketball legend on trust: “good teams become great ones when members trust each other to surrender the me to the we". Tony also shares how he chooses to work with teams, and it is not what most of us do today.
About Tony Richards
Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.
You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.
How would you go, as a CEO, from asking people to report their vacation to allowing them to take as much vacation as they want, whenever they want? With a leap of faith! Listen in as Tony describes how one CEO did just that and what happened next.
About Tony Richards
Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.
You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.
There are many ways to fail, but there are some ways that are just way too common. Tony shares what is probably the most common way to fail at Scrum. In this episode we also share 7 other tools and tips for Scrum Masters.
In the episode we also mention Samantha and Karen and their work in the Scrum community. We refer to the Moving Motivators game in Management 3.0 and quote Lyssa Adkins: “you need to be one half step ahead of your team!”
About Tony Richards
Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.
You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.
Tony shares a great story about how to get people to enter the Agile/Lean mindset, and a story about how we, as Scrum Masters can easily forget the capital rule of Scrum: involve the team.
About Tony Richards
Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.
You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.