Product Agility Enabling High Performing Teams With Ari Tikka
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Nov 24, 2022 Ari Tikka, an agile coaching expert with over three decades in the software industry, dives into the often-taboo topic of team performance. He discusses how introducing new vocabulary can transform team dialogue and enhance performance. Ari reveals what types of work hinder progress and the essential conditions for enabling great team outcomes. Surprisingly, he emphasizes that coaching plays a mere 10% role in performance, while the remaining 90% is influenced by team dynamics and organizational design.
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Team Success Rests on Enabling Conditions
- Great team performance depends mostly on enabling conditions set by organizational design and clear goals.
- Coaching contributes only about 10% to team success according to Richard Hackman's research.
Use New Vocabulary to Shift Mindsets
- Create new vocabulary in organizations to surface how things currently operate and reveal issues.
- Use new words to shift perspectives and enable organizational change.
The Contract Game Explains Failures
- The contract game describes a destructive cycle where business and tech sides clash over demands and delivery.
- This leads to unrealistic contracts, lack of visibility, and ultimately blame and failure.
