Fear is the value-killer!! - Rob Gordick, Agile World Presentation

“Fear is the value-killer”

How happiness, trust & security enables great teams.

To deliver increasing value to the customer, software product teams must be able to; build & deploy, measure, and learn as fast as possible. To truly embrace a ‘continuous improvement’ culture, key values must be nurtured and strengthened. If our goal is to maximize value delivery, then our ‘people-focused’ objectives should continuously reduce wasteful behaviors.

In this session, we’ll identify and discuss core values of strong agile and lean minded delivery teams. You will learn coaching techniques, to help teams understand their desired values compared against its practiced values. We’ll discuss methods to measure and track these values over time. Then, together, learn ways to help teams self-regulate their behavior. Along the way, key practices encouraging great values will be examined, including ways to help spot and adjust poor values which inhibit a team’s full potential.

Finally, we’ll look at how trust, happiness, and psychological security interrelate with Lean and Agile approaches (e.g., Scrum, XP, Kanban) and how conquering fear at the personal and team level significantly enables a team to achieve its maximum potential.

Rob Gordick

I am an Agile Fellow with Daugherty Business Solutions, a professional services company bringing a fresh approach to collaboration for Fortune 100 organizations and solving some of their most pressing business challenges.

Over the past 23 years, I have worked with individuals and teams at The Home Depot, AcuSport, PwC, Allstate Insurance, Goldman Sachs and Electronic Arts, to help them become more productive while improving their happiness in meaningful ways. As a change agent, I help people identify key roadblocks to change, radically improve their productivity and magnify innovation delivered. As a coach, I enable teams to develop a safe and questioning culture; passionate about delivering value. As an Agile and Lean mentor, I bring together people (Program & Portfolio team members, Scrum Masters and XP coaches) with approaches (Kanban, XP, Scrum and Agile at Scale) to deepen effectiveness.

At the end of the day, I don’t have all the answers, but I like to create hypotheses which my teammates and I can test together!

Come join us for a lively discussion with your peers. It all happens Tuesday June 11, 6-8pm at the Daugherty Offices at Phipps Tower, 3438 Peachtree Road, Suite 950, Atlanta, GA, 30326. (across from Davio's in the Lenox mall.) Appetizers served and a door prize given!