AgileNYC: Agile Day 2015 - Integral Agile Team Health
- 1. Agile NYC Day #ad15 Lyssa Adkins @lyssaadkins An Integral Agile View on Team Health
- 2. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute We have HUGE aspirations for Agile. Don’t we?
- 3. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Source: Version One 2013 “State of Agile” Survey
- 4. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Enterprise “Noise” Impacts Teams What’s the org structure? What’s the culture? How do leaders lead? Who likes whom? How do I get ahead? How do you get things done here?
- 5. Upgrading is a Fact of Life
- 6. Which are you attracted to? ©2013 Michael K. Spayd
- 12. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Coaching the Agile Enterprise A Handbook for Emerging Transformation Leaders, Change Artists and Benevolent Trouble-‐Makers ©2011-‐15 Michael K. Spayd Your Guides…. Lyssa Adkins Michael Spayd
- 13. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute What is Integral? INTEGRAL: “possessing everything essential or significant; complete; whole.” Adapted from Brett Thomas, AQAL Elements Applied to Leadership. IOS & AQAL framework are based on the work of Ken Wilber and others An integral approach incorporates all of the essential perspectives, schools of thought, and methods into a unified, comprehensive and accurate framework.
- 14. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Psychological Window Behavioral Window Cultural Window Systems Window -Professional Coaching -Personality tests (e.g., MBTI) -Introspection / meditation The “I” Perspective -Scientific method -Structured observation -Metrics / statistics The “IT” Perspective -Mental models -Facilitated dialogue -Relationship Systems Intelligence™ (RSI) The “WE” Perspective -Systems thinking -Value stream mapping -Empirical mgmt systems The “ITS” Perspective Integral Quadrants and Methods
- 15. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Integral Example from Medicine -‐-‐ treating depression -‐-‐ “I” “WE” “IT” “ITS” Psychotherapy • introspective • cognitive Medications / physical treatments • Socioeconomic status • Availability of insurance, treatment options • Available support systems • Support from family • Prayer / good intentions
- 16. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Agile Approaches Mapped to Quadrants “I” “WE” “IT” “ITS” • ‘Being’ Agile / Agile mindset • Software Craftsmanship (values) • The Leadership Circle (Anderson) • Professional Coaching (Co-active) • Doing Agile / behaviors & practices • Software Craftsmanship (practices) • Applying the scientific method • Kanban (team level) • Scaled Agile Framework™ • Beyond Budgeting • Kanban (Portfolio level) • Systems Thinking • Theory of Constraints • Holacracy • Schneider’s culture typology • Creating an Agile, collaborative culture • Systems Coaching / RSI™ • Examining mental models (Senge)
- 17. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute What’s Your Preference? ? ? ? ? “I” “WE” “IT” “ITS”
- 18. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Agile Approaches Mapped to Quadrants “I” “WE” “IT” “ITS” • ‘Being’ Agile / Agile mindset • Software Craftsmanship (values) • The Leadership Circle (Anderson) • Professional Coaching (Co-active) • Doing Agile / behaviors & practices • Software Craftsmanship (practices) • Applying the scientific method • Kanban (team level) • Scaled Agile Framework™ • Beyond Budgeting • Kanban (Portfolio level) • Systems Thinking • Theory of Constraints • Holacracy • Schneider’s culture typology • Creating an Agile, collaborative culture • Systems Coaching / RSI™ • Examining mental models (Senge)
- 19. “It thinks its one grain is all there is to love.”
- 20. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Integral Agile -‐ Team View Engaged Individual Agilists “I” “WE” “IT” “ITS” Relationships & Culture Valuable Products through Agile Practices & Roles Environment Team Mindset Practices & Roles Real Team with a Resonant “We” Smooth Beginning-to-End Product Flow
- 21. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Starter Questions for an Integral Agile Team Assessment • Lives Agile values & practices? • Tolerates ambiguity and uncertainty? • Feels free to take leadership? “I” “WE” “IT” “ITS” Relationships & Culture • Purposes of ceremonies fulfilled? • Sufficient technical practices? • Pivotal roles filled completely? Environment Team Mindset Practices & Roles • A real “We” or “I’s”? • Shared, compelling purpose? • Conflict creates positive outcomes? • Easy access to technical envs? • Work flows to team at right level of vision and granularity? • Deployment is smooth and fast?
- 22. © 2015 Agile Coaching Institute Helping Teams Increase Health Key Skills for you to Develop “I” “WE” “IT” “ITS” Teaching and Mentoring: People can be given the knowledge and demonstrable skill needed to help them move fully into their Agile roles and enact the practices completely. Team Professional Coaching: Team members can be helped to handle, with grace, the ambiguity & complexity and the pushes & pulls of the modern work world Facilitation: Teams can be helped to leverage the conflict & diversity inherent in a collaborative environment in a way that values relationship and results. Analysis Tools: Teams can more successfully influence an external environment that does not always provide agility in the way we would like.