Building Capital “T” Teams with Team Agreements

Our next Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour is scheduled for June 21st, 2023.
Time: 12:00pm PDT / 2:00pm CST / 3:00 pm EDT
Topic: Building Capital “T” Teams with Team Agreements
Our Guest Speaker is Alexander (Sasha) Frumkin

An introduction to the meetup:
Simon Sinek: “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other”. A very important way Scrum Masters can be at service for their teams is building and fostering trust over time. The very first step can be building a mutual understanding that we are not “resources”, we are vulnerable humans with our strengths and weaknesses, ups and downs. We have different cultural backgrounds and personality types. We might have a different system of expectations, a different system of defaults. When some of the team members do not behave like other teammates with a different background expect, it causes frustration and mistrust.

Building a team agreement is an opportunity to openly discuss mutual expectations, identify up front what we should do in certain scenarios to be effective as a team, on one hand, and turn our differences and cultural diversity into our benefits on the other hand. It is a chance to learn about each other and show appreciation for our diversity.

Join this session to learn about the importance of team agreement for establishing and fostering team trust. Gain some insights on how to facilitate team agreement discussion.

Takeaways:

1. Building trust when people have different cultural backgrounds and different expectations.
2. Cultivating psychological safety as a key for team performance.
3. Creating a team agreement – step by step

The speaker:
Alexander (Sasha) Frumkin (CTC, CSP-SM, CSPO, CSP-D, CAL-1) is a passionate agile coach and trainer. He has over 25 years of experience in software development, including senior management roles. Ever since discovering the Agile Manifesto in 2007, Sasha has lived and breathed agile and scrum. He believes psychological safety is a foundation for a house of scrum. Sasha partners with his clients to create a culture of brutal transparency, experimentation, and learning by doing. Currently Sasha is a principal agile coach at Bank of the West and facilitates the Agile Practitioner Online Special Interest Group. He is an inspired CST candidate who has already co-trained a few CSM classes.
Sasha can be reached at frumkia@yahoo.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-frumkin

ASVPM Meetup Team