Facilitation Guides
The Sprint
Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum, where ideas are turned into value.
Agile IQ®
Decentralised Decision-Making
Influencing Behaviour. Secondary Factor.
Overview
Delivering value in the shortest sustainable lead time requires decentralised decision-making. It is a key tenet of Lean thinking. Any decision that must be escalated to higher levels of authority introduces a delay. Also, escalated decisions can decrease quality due to the lack of local context, plus changes to the facts on which they were based that occur during the waiting period.
Management 3.0
Decentralising decisions isn’t black and white, all or nothing. Depending on teams’ maturity and trust, leaders should consider establishing guardrails for what decisions teams can make themselves and what needs to be escalated and centralised to management.
Supporting decentralised decision-making
Artefacts
The Increment
How do you create an Increment of work in Scrum? What has it got to do with the Product Goal and Definition of Done?
Artefacts
Agile Artefacts
What are the core elements of agile frameworks that help promote focus, quality, and create transparency?
Definition of Done
How to use the Definition of Done in Sprint Planning
The Definition of Done is a vital part of Sprint Planning, indicating the quality, standards, and compliance criteria for an Increment of Done
Definition of Done
Using the Definition of Done in the Retrospective
When quality slips, defects and rework increases, it’s important to look at the Definition of Done in the Retrospective.
Definition of Done
Definition of Done
What is the Definition of Done and how do you use it to improve quality and reduce rework?
Empiricism
Mastering Agile Events
Learn how to get the most out of inspecting and adapting using Scrum’s 5 key events.
Building Capability
Video: Managers and taking care of those ‘in our charge’
Simon Sinek talking on true leadership starting with distinguishing between being ‘in charge’ versus taking care of those ‘in our charge’.
Guardrails
Video: Servant Leaddership by Ken Blanchard
If you believe leadership is all about you then your leadership, by default will be more self-centred and not about the people you lead.
Building Capability
Video: Better Delegation with Management 3.0
Faster decision-making means faster delivery and “workers can often make better decisions than managers if there is trust in the system.”
Guardrails
Build-in Quality
Built-in Quality is a critical principle of agile teams that ensures the quality of their product. A robust Definition of Done is key.
Guardrails
Video: Project Managers in Agile
What are the opportunities for Project Managers as the organisation moves to Scrum?
Agile Manifesto
How does a Scrum Master work with Managers?
How does the Scrum Master approach management? How can management help the Scrum Master and Scrum Team?
Guardrails
What is the role of the team lead in agile?
In an agile team, is there a Team Lead? What about Junior or Senior developers?
Guardrails
Setting Guardrails
What are the minimum set of roles, events, artefacts and timeboxes that are essential for team’ self-management.
Guardrails
Slicing Stories that won’t finish by the end of the Sprint
Learn to slice Stories that are unlikely to be completed in the Sprint.
Building Capability
Succession Planning
Actively create plans for who fills in for key roles at Sprint Planning.
Guardrails
Improve facilitation with Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and trust.
Guardrails
An introduction to self-management
Self-management isn’t chaos. It requires management to set guardrails that define the boundaries for team-level actions, behaviours, and outputs
Definition of Done
Creating “Done” Increments every Sprint
If you are unable to deliver a “Done” increment during a Sprint, you are not doing Scrum
Facilitation Guides
Complexity and Cynefin
Understanding complexity helps attack problems with the best approach
