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What is Team Magic? - Ari Tikka

Nov 17, 2022
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Ari Tikka - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritikka/ has a magic wand for team performance, just what this wand was took me by surprise.

Not because its actually magic but because it stands a pretty good chance of working because
1) its not actually magic
2) its based upon research
3) Ari has a rather special approach.

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.

WHAT IS IN THE EPISODE?

In this episode, Ari makes the case that, to achieve a great systemic, organisational performance a Team, regardless of size, is required. Focusing on 7+/-2 won't get us to where amazing performances are staged,  so we spoke about

🍄What is performance in a team context?
🍄Everyone knows there are two types of magic Harry Potter style (real) and Dynamo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_(magician) (not real). Which is Ari's?!
🍄What are group dynamics?
🍄What does Ari recommend when you get to more than around eight teams?
🍄What type of Teamwork and collaboration mode has Ari seen between Product Owners
🍄The problems with people who have never really experienced great teamwork leading and managing teams
🍄In small-scale software development, how does Ari see leadership being enacted?
🍄How the performance of the "smartest person" has held back our thinking on Teams
🍄 Why is it that in some organisations, the "aggressive whippers" (aka Project Managers who focus on Jira ticket management) get promoted?
🍄 Ben's complete ignorance as to what Zen meditation is was exposed (Ben: "turns out its inverse floating")
🍄Is a Requirement Area  - https://less.works/less/less-huge/requirement-areas in
If the enablers for Teamwork are the same for communities, so what are Ari's tips for getting a community working well?
 

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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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