Growing Effective Agile Teams by Roy Osherove

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GrowingEffectiveAgile Teams

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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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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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#IWishMyTeamProblem Solving Ability Phases

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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

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•Leadership skills to succeed in an agile world

•(Also in non agile world)

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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: Roy@osherove.com

• Twitter: @RoyOsherove

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• 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