Badass Agile

Why is there a dividing line between the Product Owner Role, and the Rest of the Solution Team?  How do we run our interactions to honour that?

* The division is meant to enforce the freedom of teams to solve problems the best way they collectively know how

* This doesn’t mean the owner can’t have input, but the best way to communicate those inputs is as needs - requirements, stories, Definitions of Done, etc

A badass doesn’t respect positional authority.  How do you pull that off?

* True authority is earned, and is service-based.  A positional leader is one who has the title, but neither leads nor serves

* Disrespecting authority is not ‘the way’ - rather, do not blindly follow those with a title

* Beware the motives of those who crave power for its own sake

* Instead, lead respectfully from where you are.  Let your vision and service guide your work

A badass doesn’t respect positional authority.  How do you pull that off?

* True authority is earned, and is service-based.  A positional leader is one who has the title, but neither leads nor serves

* Disrespecting authority is not ‘the way’ - rather, do not blindly follow those with a title

* Beware the motives of those who crave power for its own sake

* Instead, lead respectfully from where you are.  Let your vision and service guide your work

Do You Ever get knocked down?  What do you do when you feel like you’re not winning?  When you want to quit?

* Success Is Not The Absence of Failure

* The Goal is not to avoid getting hit…the goal is to avoid getting hit twice the same way

* Sometimes the failure feels devastating.  Like you’re losing ground.  You needed this setback to show you where the gaps are…so you can handle your business.

* Change your mindset.  The setback is a gift.  Learn to process it quicker and you’ll be on your way toward mastery.

Do You Ever get knocked down?  What do you do when you feel like you’re not winning?  When you want to quit?

* Success Is Not The Absence of Failure

* The Goal is not to avoid getting hit…the goal is to avoid getting hit twice the same way

* Sometimes the failure feels devastating.  Like you’re losing ground.  You needed this setback to show you where the gaps are…so you can handle your business.

* Change your mindset.  The setback is a gift.  Learn to process it quicker and you’ll be on your way toward mastery.

What is the most ominous, highest priority barrier to Agile adoption that we should prepare for?

* The Resistance.  From Teams and From Management

* To Overcome the Resistance, you have to activate your service-based mindset, your vision…get your head right first, and then start changing minds by showing them.  Remember, if you build a spectacular fire, people looking to get warm will come to it.

How Long Before Agile Starts Paying Dividends?

* Agile is about change.  Mindsets take time to change, and right action takes time to become habit

* Like anything else in Agile, work with the highest-priority fundamentals first, then continue to perfect and expand with time

* Like anything else in Agile, demo (show), and measure.

How Long Before Agile Starts Paying Dividends?

* Agile is about change.  Mindsets take time to change, and right action takes time to become habit

* Like anything else in Agile, work with the highest-priority fundamentals first, then continue to perfect and expand with time

* Like anything else in Agile, demo (show), and measure.

What makes a remarkable leader?

* A common person with uncommon resolve and steadiness when the safety and certainty everyone depends on suddenly changes

* The secret to this skill is the reprioritization habit - focusing on responding to change rather than bemoaning or resisting it.

What makes a remarkable leader?

* A common person with uncommon resolve and steadiness when the safety and certainty everyone depends on suddenly changes

* The secret to this skill is the reprioritization habit - focusing on responding to change rather than bemoaning or resisting it.