The hosts discuss the challenges of sprinting during the autumnal equinox and introduce a checklist to improve team engagement and identify missing conversations. They also highlight the crucial elements for successful teamwork, including alignment, engagement, and constructive conflict.
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Autumn Sprint Reveals Team Problems
Jeffrey noticed the months before Christmas feel like a sprint for many businesses.
He observed that this sprinty period often reveals underlying problems in teams and projects.
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Three Core Qualities Of Effective Teams
High-performing teams share three core qualities: alignment, engagement, and constructive conflict.
When all three exist, teams feel able to overcome obstacles and succeed.
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Use A Three-Item Diagnostic Checklist
Use a simple three-item checklist to diagnose missing conversations in teams.
Evaluate alignment, engagement, and constructive conflict separately to find where conversations are missing.
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An underperforming tech team is missing something, but what? This week on Troubleshooting Agile, Squirrel and Jeffrey share their diagnostics for discovering missing conversations
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About Your Hosts
Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.
Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.
You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html
Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.
You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/
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