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Mahendiran Periyasamy

2017 Project Management Symposium

ENERGILE’S AGILE COACHING SKILLS TO BUILD HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS AND HIGH PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS

Founder & CEO, Energile Consultancy Services LLCPMP, CSM, CSP, CSPO, PMI-ACP, ITIL, ICC Certified Agile Coach, SAFe Agilist, Lean Kanban TKP, Disciplined Agilist, Six Sigma Green Belt

Get Ready to Energile!

o Get Involved

o Energy and Enthusiasm

o Participate and Collaborate

o Let us get Electrified

o Let’s Play - Energile Clap!

Before we begin..

q Agile Proficiency Levels

– Expert

– Advanced (wise)

– Intermediate (knowledgeable)

– Beginner (often wishful thinkers)

– Novice (just starting)

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• Agile High Performing Teams (AHPT) - Overview

• Key Agile Coaching Ingredients To Build AHPTs

• Potential Benefits to Teams & Organizations

• Challenges & Solutions

• Q&A

Agenda

High Performance.. Few Analogies

q I.. YOU.. WE.. o I - Initiation.. Innovation.. Inspiration.. Impact..o Sun.. Burn like Sun.. To Energile the World.. Engine.. Volcanoo Your Opportunities are Unlimitedo 1 + 1 > 2.. TEAM.. “100 Trillion Cells”

q 4 E Leadership - Energy.. Energize.. Edge.. Execute

q Growth Engine.. ChanGE.. Cha(llen)GE

q Never Ever Stop Even @ The TOP

q 100% Intelligence.. Unutilized potentials.. Sig Sigma

Agile High Performing Teams

A “TEAM” is comprised of cross-functional, self-organized, self-

starters, and value-driven individuals, united to the goal of

producing high-quality results at a sustainable pace”

"TEAM" = Together Everyone Achieves MaGiC...!

eMpower Everyone!

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eMpower Everyone!

All for ONE; ONE for All!

Key Success Factors..

“Going with Agile or GROWing with Agile?”

High Performing Teams..

Key Ingredients of High Performing Teams (Contd)..

F Integrity!!! Either.. Or.. Boolean

F Self-Starters.. Not the push starters..

F Helpful.. members are willing to help each other (regardless of role)

to ensure the Team is successful

F Passionate.. Drive with Passion.. Fueled with Energy and Enthusiasm

F Positive.. work towards an environment that is open, transparent,

positive and conflict-free through open communication

High Performing Teams..

F Self-Organizing - team can drive itself without leadership influence

F Participative.. Collaborative.. - everyone provides input &

not afraid to share ideas

F Trust.. Respect each other.. Believing in each others’ strengths

F Ready to Learn.. Explore.. – Always willing to learn and look at

new and fresh perspectives

Collaborate.. Unite.. Become STRONGER

Energize Team to persuade Possibility Thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uv27nSaH4

Agile Coaching Competencies

Support Team to GROW by Understanding their “Needs and Moods” and “Pains & Pleasures” @ each stage

Reference: Dr Bruce Tuckman

Elevate @ Every Stage of Teaming…

Factors Influencing Agile DNA

At the Organization…– Provide Safe Environment to All to share any feedback

– Empower Teams to solve their own problems

– Organizational culture is open to feedback

– Agile maturity of the organization / On-going Strong agile coaching culture

– Management support

Agile Influencers…– People

– Process

– Tools & Automation

Agile Maturity Levels…– Transparency

– Predictability

– Quality

– High Performing

– Alignment

Are we too busy to improve?

“Use Retrospectives as a Powerful Tool

To Build High Performing Teams”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/keeping-kaizen-spirit-alive-retrospective-makarand-purohit

Kaizan for High Performance Teams?

• Never Ever STOP Even @ the TOP!

• CHAMPIONS are always made “off-season!”

• The BIGGEST impediment to our future, is our past success!

• Be(come) the Role Model

Keeping “The Kaizen Spirit” ALIVE!

Kaizan For Agile Coaching

– Improves the Environment of Trust

– Identifies risks early and potential

mitigations in advance!

– Improves Team’s productivity

– Improves Team communication

– Improve predictability of estimates

– Reduces any team conflict

– Discovers impediments faster

– Deals with customer issues faster

– Celebrates team accomplishments

Enhances “Kaizan” culture!

Cultivates Appreciation Culture!

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be APPRECIATED” ~ William James

Watch lists for Growing with Agile

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• Defining and Elevating High Performing Teams

• “Powerful Questioning” that move clients forward

• NSI Teams – Never Stop Improving! (Journey, NOT a destination)

• CPI Plans – Continuous Process Improvement

• Strategies for dealing with different types of teams

• Coach’s role in “Building Self organizing Teams”

• “Team Thinking” – Collective Ownership on Deliverables/Issues

• Highly focused on goals to achieve superior results

Kaizan Retrospective Techniques…

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▪ Sailboat

▪ Rocket Launching (Driving Force Vs Pulling Force)

▪ Quotes Based (Eg. You will be known forever

by the tracks we leave behind ~ Daketo)

▪ 4Es Leadership – Energy.. Energize.. Edge.. Execute..

▪ Building Legacy / “Role-Model” Team Building

▪ 5W + 1H Theme

▪ Start, Stop, Continue, More of, Less of Wheel

▪ One Plus One Minus

▪ Lean Coffee Style

▪ Timeline Retro

▪ SWOT Analysis

▪ Traffic Signal

▪ What surprised; What Challenged; What puzzled

▪ Good; Better; Bad

▪ What went well; What to change

▪ Tracks to Follow; Cracks to Fix

• The 5 Whys

• Flowcharting

• Brainstorming

• Fishbone Diagrams

• Idea Map Diagrams

• Force Field Analysis

• 6 Thinking Hats Retrospective

• Pomodoro Retrospective

• Retrospective Surgery

▪ 4L - Liked – Learned – Lacked – Longed For

▪ Pillars Of Agile Spiderweb Retrospective

▪ Appreciative Retrospective

▪ Top 3.. Bottom 3

▪ Circle of Influence/ Circle of Concern

▪ Plan of Action

▪ Each One Pair One

▪ Oscar Award Theme on Stories

▪ Movie Theme Retro - Characters/Events

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Add Colors and Flavors to TEAMs!

NIKO Tool

Outdoor Retro

Aware.. Know.. Do.. Be!

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Q&A

Mahendiran PeriyasamyFounder & Chief Energile Officer – Energile LLC

PMP, PMI-ACP, IC Certified Agile Coach, CSM, CSPO, CSP, ITIL V3F, SAFe Agilist , Six Sigma Green Belt, Kanban TKP, Disciplined Agilist, ACG

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EmPOWERing People.. Electrifying Results..

Let’s go Inspire.. Impact.. Be a Role Model..

Be the Change.. “Be” Agile!