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Agile Animal Farm

A G I L E T H R O U G H O U R B E H AV I O U RU N D E R S TA N D I N G

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Senior Lean Agile Coach Senior Scrum Coach & Trainer

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Table Of Contents

S TA RT I N G W I T H A M E TA P H O R

P E R S O N A S & B E H AV I O U R S

L E T ’ S T RY A G A M ED E B R I E F I N G &

C L O S I N G

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B A S E D O N M A R I O M O R E I R A’ S W O R K

Starting With A Metaphor

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H T T P : / / C M F O R A G I L E . B L O G S P O T. F R / 2 0 1 1 / 0 8 / A G I L E - A N I M A L - FA R M . H T M L

THAT’S HOW I STARTED

WITH AGILE

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Purpose Of This Game

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U N D E R S TA N D I N G T H E B A S I C

P R I N C I P L E S O F T H E A G I L E

C U LT U R E A N D U N D E R S TA N D I N G T H E I M PA C T O F B E H AV I O U R I N

A G I L E

Impact of this metaphor

T H E C H I C K E N O N LY G I V E S T H E I R E G G S

P I G S H AV E T O P U T T H E I R F L E S H O N T H E TA B L E

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B A S E D O N M A R I O M O R E I R A’ S W O R K

Personas & Behaviours

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Pigs• They are involved, engaged to

the project. In Scrum, it’s the purpose of the Scrum Team (Delivery Team, Scrum Master and Product Owner).

• They are committed to the work. They are working in a pigpen with other pigs who love their work.

• When Agility is well set, they are all willing to put they «  flesh-on-the-set  » each day because they feel ownership of the work.

• They a re asse r t i ve and accountable for the success of the project and have a majority (if not all) of their performance goals linked directly to the success of the project and their specific Agile team.

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• They come and go on the project.

• While chickens are mostly helpful, because they are contributing their eggs, they don’t always understand the full context because they are n o t a d e d i c a t e d t e a m member.

• So occasionally they may accidentally contribute a rotten egg.

• They are not accountable for the success of the project, although they may have a s m a l l p o r t i o n o f t h e i r performance goals linked to the success of the project.

Chicken

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Foxes• They like to stealthily move

into and through the team seeing who has certain skills and ideas.

• Then they like to steal not only resources (Agile team members) for their own teams, but they also steal ideas.

• They are not necessarily negative, because they are o f ten so qu ie t in the i r manipulative work.

• They are dedicated to their own success.

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Seagulls• They like to fly around the

p ro j e c t a n d n o t r e a l l y contribute in any manner.

• They enjoy “talking” (mostly hearing themselves speak) and pretend they are adding value, but they are only annoying the pigs (Agile team members).

• Often, they like to swoop in so it can look like they are involved (and they’ll tell others this).

• They are often quite negative, squawk a lot in a “know it all” manner, and often poop on people and their ideas.

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Rats• They are deceiver types who

will use the trust of the team to gain insight into topics so they can then “rat” on what is going on to others.

• Often on Agile teams, they are really deceivers because they are really anti-Agile or just plain negative people.

• T h e y o f t e n k n o w t h e decisions that are made based on certain contexts that the team is in, but will twist the truth in order to bring the project down.

• It is important to identify these deceivers as quickly as possible and get them off the team.

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Cats• They are a lazy type on an

Agile team that really do not pitch in but instead like to sleep instead.

• They are almost purposefully not assertive, have been used to just “getting by” on projects for years, and are not real ly interested in feeling ownership of the work.

• They t yp i ca l l y ne i t he r positive nor negative and simply like to be left alone.

• The other team members will begin to notice this behaviour and realise they are not really interested in becoming part of the team.

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• They are command-and-control types who think they can continue to tell their folks what to do even though they are dedicated to their Agile teams.

• Sometimes referred to as bullies, they charge right into the team and attempt to direct them to their own work and often deviate the team from building product functionality.

• Ty p i c a l l y, t h e y a re n o t interested in the Agile mindset because they see it as a challenge to their authority (technical or managerial) or don’t really understand or care about the business benefits of Agile, but instead want to maintain their own status.

Bulls

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Shepherd Dog• And f i na l l y no f a rm i s

c o m p l e t e w i t h o u t t h e Shepherd Dog.

• However, on an Agile farm, it cannot be just any Shepherd Dog but instead a benevolent Shepherd Dog who is good to his animals and ensure the animals have what they need to grow and prosper.

• The Agile Animal Shepherd Dog encourages, inspires, a n d a l l o w s f o r t e a m a u t o n o m y a n d s e l f organisation.

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P L AY A N D W O R K I T O U T !

Let’s Try A Game

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L E S S O N S L E A R N E D

Debriefing & Closing

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• let’s make 3 teams

• each team seats around a table

• come to each team member with « animals » cards and ask to choose an animal to play

• during 5 minutes, each team has to draw a landscape with 5 flowers in different colours.

Rules Of The Game - Round 1

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C H E C K

T H E R E S U LT S

D I S C U S S

F I N D I N G S

T E A M M AT E S

T RY T O D I S C O V E R

• According to the « animal » played, you will have a result or not.

• For Round 1, try to identify who played what animal.

• Make it fun!

… What Happened After 5 Minutes ?

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• Let’s keep the 3 teams

• Each team seats around a table

• Come to each team member with « animals » cards and assign a « role » to each of them.

• Try to have Team 1(Bulls, Seagulls and Chicken); Team 2 (Rats, Cats and Foxes); Team 3 (Pigs and Shepherd Dog)

• During 5 minutes, each team has to draw a landscape with 5 flowers in different colours

Rules Of The Game - Round 2

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C H E C K

T H E R E S U LT S

D I S C U S S

F I N D I N G S

T E A M M AT E S

T RY T O D I S C O V E R

• from each team, team members tried to identify who played what animal

• we analysed the outcome of the round

• we tried to figure patterns out from each team behaviour

• Team 3 produced a great landscape

• Team 2 produced…. nothing

• Team 1 produced … nothing

… What Happened After 5 Minutes ?

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• Make 1 big team

• Come to each team member with « animals » cards and assign a « role » to each of them

• During 5 minutes, the big team has to draw or make a landscape with 5 flowers in different colours

Rules Of The Game - Round 3

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C H E C K

T H E R E S U LT S

D I S C U S S

F I N D I N G S

T E A M M AT E S

T RY T O D I S C O V E R

• from each team, team members tried to identify who played what animal

• we analysed the outcome of the round

• we tried to figure patterns out from each team behaviour

• all the behaviours have been amplified and stress has emerged

• we discovered that all « animal behaviours » have been amplified in a large team and it was complicated to keep permanently a « pig » position.

… What Happened After 5 Minutes ?

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… For What Is It Good For ?

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Credits• based on Mario Moreira’s Agile Animal Farm

• http://www.pd4pic.com/animals-bat-drawing-cartoon-page-farm-landscape.html

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