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Team performance has almost become a taboo topic in the agile world, which I believe is ridiculous. Scrum Masters and Agile Team Coaches are there specifically for that reason. You can guess how I felt when Ari Tikka - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritikka/ wanted to talk about this. In a word, EXCITED.

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

🎭How introducing a new vocabulary and knowledge of teamwork enables transformational team dialogue and performance
🎭What type of work is inherently inconsequential, and why this work stops team performance improvement in its tracks
🎭How do you resolve the big impediments? What two things are needed in a room to accelerate continuous improvement and the removal of BIG impediments? Ari shares a huge secret to his success
🎭 How Ari's work builds on top of Richard Hackman's work (standing on the shoulders of giants - diff thumb)
🎭What are the enabling conditions that enable teams to have great performances?
🎭Does Ari think that psychological proofing to choose team members works?
🎭Would you believe that coaching a team only contributes 10% towards their performance? We talk about the other 90 10% of the performance that can be influenced.
🎭According to Richard Hackman's research, how much of an effect can coaching a team have when compared to, let's say, getting the team set up in the first place
a coach, if coaching a team may be only influencing performance by 10%, Ari gives you some options
🎭What is the contract game, and why should you know about it!

USEFUL LINKS

The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255127.The_Fifth_Discipline
MIT Beer Simulation Game - https://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/beergame.html

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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