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The Dynamics of High Performance Teams With Ari Tikka

Dec 1, 2022
29:52

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Ari has woven his thoughts on group dynamics by consolidating 70 years of research into something he believes are the team dynamics fundamentals that everyone Scrum Master should know how to leverage to help teams reach high performance

WHO IS ARI?
Ari provides coaching, training, and consultation for Agile Teams, Product Owners, Adoption Leaders, and executives. He has worked in the software business since 1990, including seven years of developing fault-tolerant embedded real-time systems.

✨This research was done in som elunlikley contexts, you will be amazed what we in the Product Agility world can learn from coal miners.
✨Were Coal miners the first Feature Teams?
✨What is the "third" relationship that we can find in a team that is not between each individual but between the individuals and something else
✨how can understanding thie extra entity help us to create teams whose performance sets them apart from the crowd?
✨What can we develop in ourselves that enables us to be aware of this and manage the power it holds over us and others?
✨We learn the first necessary step in team forming, that if missed could caause performacne improvement inertia
✨What is the role of the "situational leader" and how teams thrive because of it
✨✨And how this situational leadership can then lead the team to an untimely death
✨How can you tell if your team is in its Teenage years?
✨How the teams "internal questions" are the key to the next stages of team development
✨How long does it take for teams to reach distinguiable levels of performance
✨Why "Dreaming" is better than "Norming"
✨How can we turn this advice to communiities?
✨Team resiliacny, does it mean being hard so nothing effects your or soft so that they can dented and recover, becoming something new

USEFUL LINKS
The images Ari was showing during the episode (Team Life Cycle) - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D_GnHqZtnp1RsSnl0PBb8aQZcsYP2JZ-?usp=sharing
Teamwork and Rewarding, a blog post by Ari - https://gosei.fi/blog/teamwork-and-rewarding/
More info on Ari's approach - https://gosei.fi/te

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.

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