Marcus UdokangProject Manager| Aivaz ConsultingCalgary, Alberta, Canada
It is said the most valuable parts of Scrum are its 5 values: Openness, Focus, Courage, Commitment, Respect.
The fundamental attribution error is finding a scapegoat to blame when something goes wrong. When something goes wrong it is said to start from an assumption of positive intent, come from a place of respect.
With collaboration, we need the opinions of the team, and that is only possible in an environment of mutual respect.
Scrum is about cross functional and self managed teams. Everything starts and ends with the team. Everything starts and ends with respect.
Any suggestions on how to create an atmosphere of respect, and how to deal with respect if it starts to dissipate from the team? Saving Changes...
Helping the team come up with a working agreement, modeling demonstrating respect to stakeholders and providing direct coaching and feedback can all help.
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
When I help to launch teams, one of the workshops/training is one on high performing teams. This includes discussing psychological safety, core-values, Tuckman, games, then feeds into the team working together on a team working agreement. The working agreement is continuously inspected for opportunities to refine and is also agreed upon by the team to regularly check themselves against the agreement.
What I have found to happen too often, is the working agreement is enthusiastically created, but soon forgotten and lost in the wind. Making a point to revisit highlights the importance of the activity and the output. We just want to remain hyper-focused and aware that that output should be yielding an outcome (the high performing team) Saving Changes...
Marcus UdokangProject Manager| Aivaz ConsultingCalgary, Alberta, Canada
