everything is better when we stick together: building team working agreements
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Everything is awesome when you’re part of a
team!:working agreements and navigating conflict
Ellen Grove & Mike BowlerAgile Games 20152015
@eegrove
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.Walter Lippman, The Stakes of Democracy 1915
Building Alignment:Simple Guiding Principles and Working Agreements
Principles will help us as we choose between alternatives. We will prefer an alternative that meets the principles more fully to one that doesn’t. Each principle embodies the values.
By defining working agreements, your team members forge a pact about how they will interact, behave and produce
What’s important to me as a team member?
What do we value and how do we show it?
How do we want to treat each other?
What do we want to do when we don’t agree?
Relationships
Externals/Moods
Data Structure
Values
Interests
------------Furlong’s Circle of Conflict-------------
Build a bridge
Why Play?
• The lonely guy
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LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Etiquette• Facilitator sets the challenge, timelines and
guides the process.• The model is your answer to the challenge.• There are no wrong answers!!! • Think with your hands.• Listen with your eyes and ears.• Everyone builds & everyone talks.• Set your gadgets aside, please
Explain this!
ImprovGolf
Continuous DeliveryCrayons
Ice cream
Explain this!
BicyclingClimate Change
PuppetsYogurtFalling
Explain this!
Pair programmingFlowers
ChocolateProfitSailing
Best team member ever….or worst.
Pick a brick! What colour is conflict?
What kind of help do I need from my team?
What should we do if one of us is letting the team down?
What guideline do you think needs to be in the team working agreement?
Thank [email protected]
@eegrove
masteringtheobvious.wordpress.com
@mike_bowler
www.gargoylesoftware.com
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