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  • Product Agility with the Kanban Maturity Model with Teodora Bozheva

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    Teodora Bozheva, creator of the Kanban Maturity Model (a brilliant tool for teaching people what customer centric really means) coaches, agile and product alike). Teodora loves helping companies improve. I loved having her on the show!

    Teodora has a proven track record in helping organizations achieve improved levels of adaptability and delivery of products that customers love.

    In this 1st episode, Teodora shares all about the model and its positive impact on organizations. I recommend getting a pen and paper ready, as Teofora will share some golden insights!

    The Highlights

    • 00:02:31 Who is Teodora Bozheva?
    • 00:05:51 A concise and brilliant explanation of Kanban
    • 00:07:05 What is the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)?
    • 00:10:55 What are the higher levels of maturity in the KMM?
    • 00:12:08 Is the KMM for a part of or a whole organisation?
    • 00:14:57 Why maturity (as per the KMM) differs in organisations, and what can be done to make this work
    • 00:18:59 What is the accelerant for maturity in an organisation that appears in nearly all levels of the KMM
    • 00:19:59 A short and insightful anecdote on applying the KMM

    Guest Bio

    Teodora (https://bit.ly/TeoBzaLD) is the co-creator of the Kanban Maturity Model (the other person being David J. Anderson,) a model that helps organisations that want to take an evolutionary approach to improve their culture &management so that they can adapt quickly to customer needs. 

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


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    28 min
  • Scaling Product Excellence @ PandaDoc Insider Secrets for Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches With Denis Salnikov

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    Denis Salnikov is a Head of Agile Practice at PandaDoc. He and Ben explored just what this role means in a company that is successfully using LeSS Huge - https://less.works/less/less-huge.

    What themes did we explore?

    • How does PandaDoc decide how to group the features on their backlog?
    • PandaDoc has managers. What are their tips for making it work?
    • What does a Head of Agile Practices at PandaDoc do on a day-to-day basis?

    Here are some of the highlights

    • 00:01:38 - How did PandaDoc create Requirement Areas for their Product?
    • 00:06:12 - What is area "area leadership" at PandaDoc, and how does it help to maximise the Product Value?
    • 00:07:21 - Does the area leadership have any organisational structural relationship within it?
    • 00:08:50 - Product owners have been known to inflate the potential value of their area to keep teams, "their Teams," working on it - This is how PandaDoc deal with that
    • 00:11:24 - What is the best tip Denis can provide to those wondering how to create an area in LeSS Huge for the first time?
    • 00:13:09 - How do reporting lines and organisational structure work with their Product Structure
    • 00:15:05 - What is the day-to-day life like for a Head of Agile Practices at PandaDoc? do they have people management responsibility?
    • 00:16:39 - Is a Head of Agile at PandaDoc just a Scrum Master?
    • 00:19:39 - Denis is proud of his people management skills. How did he develop them?
    • 00:20:48 - Sage advice from Denis... you have to hear it!

    Guest Bios

    Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach who has been consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, management, and organisations since 2014.
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


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    25 min
  • Cracking the Code of Remote & Multi-Learning: Evgeniy Labunskiy & Denis Salnikov of Panda Docs

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    Evgeniy and Denis are both Heads of Agile Practice at PandaDoc. They joined Ben to share their top tips for making remote working and learning really work.

    What themes did we explore?

    • The cost of remote working vs co-location
    • Effective, remote, Feature teams
    • How a teams geographic location can affect the part of the product they work on

    Here are some of the highlights

    • 00:01:24 - PandaDoc moved from complete co-location to complete remote working. What were the challenges and the journey
    • 00:04:02 - What does "Multi-learning" mean in an agile environment?
    • 00:06:06 - How has this agile power couple at PandaDocs bridged the remote working gap to make multi-learning easier
    • 00:08:39 - What is the increased cost of collaboration and conversation when working remotely?
    • 00:09:54 - The reason why working remotely can work? When we see our solo task as valuable more than teamwork
    • 00:11:32 - The secret sauce to make remote work
    • 00:13:14 - Tips for successful Feature Team Self-Design Workshops
    • 00:14:44 - What is more critical in Feature Team Self-Design? Technical or Business domain knowledge?
    • 00:15:40 - Are PandaDoc Feature Teams happier working remotely?
    • 00:17:30 - What does Evengiy believe is an effective strategy for remote teamwork? 
    • 00:19:26 - Should your teams' geographic location influence the areas of the product they work on?

    Guest Bios

    Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach who has been consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, management, and organisations since 2014.
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/

    Evgeniy Labunski has over a decade of experience in Agile within Product Development, Enterprise & Startups.  He is a strategic thinker, a skilled resolver of conflict and lives and breaths flexibility and adaptability.
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/labunskiy/

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


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    25 min
  • PandaDocs Agile Power Duo On Features and 5x Growth: Evgeniy Labunskiy & Denis Salnikov

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    Evgeniy and Denis are both Heads of Agile Practice at PandaDoc. They joined Ben to share trials faced during the Global pandemic and when growing to five times their original size (whilst still getting their product to market). They also share how they started with Large Scale Scrum, LeSS, to achieve their dreams of Feature Teams.

    The big questions for me were

    • Why did they embrace Feature teams (teams who can deliver all features end-to-end)?  
    • How do they get the whole organisation behind the idea of a whole organisational change? 
    • What problems have they encountered, and what are they doing now to overcome them?

    Here are some of the highlights

    • 00:04:05 - Who or What is Panda Doc?
    • 00:05:22 - What was the starting point for the journey of the Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) & Feature Teams? 
    • 00:10:32 - Did they choose LeSS & Feature Teams, or did they choose them?
    • 00:12:14 - Starting a LeSS Adoption with or without formal LeSS Training?
    • 00:14:13 - The negative side effect of not getting Certified LeSS Training for their adoption
    • 00:15:21 - How growth dilutes an organisation's purpose when using Feature Teams
    • 00:18:22 - Then Denis joined...
    • 00:22:16 - Top-Down and Bottom-Up Adoption
    • 00:23:49 - How 5 x Growth can affect an outstanding engineering culture
    • 00:27:00 - What effect did the Covid Pandemic & the war in Ukraine have on PandaDoc

    Guest Bios

    Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach who has been consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, management, and organisations since 2014.
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/

    Evgeniy Labunski has over a decade of experience in Agile within Product Development, Enterprise & Startups.  He is a strategic thinker, a skilled resolver of conflict and lives and breaths flexibility and adaptability.
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/labunskiy/

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


    Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes

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    35 min
  • What the f*?! Is Flight Levels (with Cliff Hazell, Ex Spotify and Co-Creator of Flight Levels)

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    Cliff Hazell, ex-Spotify and Co-Founder of Flight Levels with Kalus Leopold is an expert on organisational change, systems, agile and Kanban. In this practical and somewhat philosophical episode, Cliff and I explore some meaty topics that Agile Coaches, Product People, Scrum Masters, damned pretty much anyone with interest in organisational change will love.

    This is the third of three episodes that Cliff and I recorded

    In this one, we speak about ...

    • 2:29 - Why and How did Flight Levels come into existence (includes a brilliant metaphor)
    • 6:21 - A Parallel between Flight Levels and Large Scale Scrum?
    • 09:04 - Can there ever be one true way to achieve organisational agility?
    • 10:14 - Are we solving the right problems?
    • 11:56 - Flight Levels = Genius Marketing?
    • 16:14 - Ahmad Fahmy’s Gemba Sprints
    • 17:23 - Doe’s Flight Levels get leaders down to Gemba? (the palace of actual work)
    • 21:37 - Will Flight Levels ever partner with any other approaches?
    • 26:23 - What is the future for Flight Levels

    And all this!

    • What is Flight Levels?
    • What did Cliff do before co-founding Flight Levels?
    • What is it if the challenge is not to get teams to perform better at achieving their outcomes?
    • Cliff shared a brilliant Typewriter based metaphor to explain why organisations fail that even your granny would understand. 
    • What is the right information that organisations need? 
    • Does it pay to be dogmatic about the terminology we use?
    • Should every problem we find be solved now?
    • How do Fight levels share pain around to make change happen?
    • What is the issue with the prevailing system of Technology (not Product ) companies?
    • Can coordination and visualising it create transparency and unlock opportunities for the future?
    • Will there ever be one framework to rule them all?
    •  The future for Flight Levels will be looking at, in a post-covid world, exploring new ways to engage, self-paced content 

    Useful Links
    Cliff Hazel - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffhazell/
    Flight Levels Academy - https://www.flightlevels.io/
    Ahmad Fahmy - https://www.ahmadfahmy.com/

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


    Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes

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    38 min
  • The Power of Quitting & Org Change Pitfalls (with Cliff Hazell, Ex Spotify and Co-Creator of Flight Levels)

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    Cliff Hazell, ex-Spotify and Co-Founder of Flight Levels with Kalus Leopold is an expert on organisational change, systems, agile and Kanban. In this practical and somewhat philosophical episode, Cliff and I explore some meaty topics that Agile Coaches, Product People, Scrum Masters, damned pretty much anyone with interest in organisational change will love.

    This is the second of 3 episodes that Cliff and I recorded on various topics.

    In this one, we speak about Organisational change pitfalls Agile Coaches and other change agents can avoid. The power of quitting in a Product environment (as well as in our personal lives). Putting the parts back together rather than being reductionist (through critiquing the words holistic and systemic and a whole lot more (see below).

    Should you want to skip to a specific point, this is probably useful (if chapters are not your thing)

    • 02:28 - How Cliff tuned into his biases
    • 03:24 - Diversity and Bias training challenges
    • 05:34 - Cultural norming
    • 06:25 - Ben overshares (probably)
    • 08:41 - Why it's hard for some when moving from Project to Product delivery
    • 09:23 - What were Cliff's experiences of individual change at Spotify
    • 11:03 - How a 4 x 4 matrix can help explain change resistance
    • 15:00 - Being courageously curious with the Left-Hand column technique
    • 17:24 - Why doe's being rational and applying reasoning not work when you want it to
    • 18:19 - How to create an appropriate course of action to tackle an organisational problem 
    • 19:46 - Why you should read Humble Enquiry and judge people on their intentions
    • 21:43 - Tips to avoid failure with organisational restructures

    And all this!

    🧔🏻SA to Sweden was a cultural change that affected cliff, it led to people thinking his behaviour was abnormal.
    🧔🏻He found his understanding of the world to be incomplete as it was only through his lens
    🧔🏻What are some of the challenges Cliff has found with bias training? 
    🧔🏻Doe's just knowing our biases mean we can overcome them?
    🧔🏻What is the link between lions and whether we believe someone could be a great leader or software developer
    🧔🏻Cultural norming, how does this make individual adaptation hard?
    🧔🏻Can we say that biases or always good or bad?
    🧔🏻People are quick to judge what people say, post, and infer - but what about their story?
    🧔🏻What are the crusaders and the tradition bearers?
    🧔🏻How can coaching people to develop counterarguments help make change happen?
    🧔🏻How working through arguments on both sides allows us to approach Lions
    🧔🏻Why the "Left Hand Column" technique is a solid gold technique for working through tense situations
    🧔🏻Why and why do logic and reason fail in an argument?
    🧔🏻How can seeing more of the whole help with our interpretation and, as a result, our behaviours? 
    🧔🏻How can humility help increase our systemic understanding?
    🧔🏻Who should be involved in decisions about an organisational restructure?





    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


    Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes

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    29 min
  • The Problems with Top-Down and Bottom-Up Change (with Cliff Hazell, Ex Spotify and Co-Creator of Flight Levels)

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    Cliff Hazell, ex-Spotify and Co-Founder of Flight Levels with Klaus Leopold is an expert on organisational change, systems, agile and Kanban. In this practical and somewhat philosophical episode, Cliff and I explore some meaty topics that Agile Coaches, Product People, Scrum Masters, damned pretty much anyone with an interest in organisational change will love.

    This is the first of 3 episodes that Cliff and I recorded on various topics.

    In this one, we speak about Organisational change pitfalls Agile Coaches and other change agents can avoid. The power of quitting in a Product environment (as well as in our personal lives). Putting the parts back together rather than being reductionist (through critiquing the words holistic and systemic and a whole lot more (see below).

    Should you want to skip to a specific point, this is probably useful (if chapters are not your thing)

    • 02:15 - How did Ben become aware of Cliff and his work?
    • 03:03 - Who is Cliff Hazell? In his own words
    • 06:37 - Is the "Top Down and Bottom" metaphor useful when attempting organisational change?
    • 09:20 - The problems with the terms "systemic" and "holistic."
    • 11:39 - what is the big challenge when embarking on organisational change?
    • 13:48 - What is it that Cliff finds both frustrating and amusing?
    • 15:16 - The secret to Cliff's success
    • 17:32 - what are the two pitfalls when trying to be outcome focussed
    • 21:03 - What was the thing Cliff should have quit rather than carried on
    • 24:06 - When an organisation should quit talking about focus
    • 27:14 - why is it Naive to think that just training will change an organisational system?
    • 28:42 - Episode recap

    Useful Stuff

    Sunk cost fallacy 

    1. the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.

    Annie Duke - Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away 

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


    Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes

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    31 min
  • Festive Fun! - Find Out About our Christmas Break and Plans for 2023

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    As this year comes to an end, I thought it would be the perfect time to take a short hiatus on the podcast! In order to prepare for all of the new amazing things that are coming in January. Thank you to all of the LeSS Listeners, we hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year! Listen out for us in 2023! 

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


    Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes

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    6 min
  • The Dynamics of High Performance Teams With Ari Tikka

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    Ari has woven his thoughts on group dynamics by consolidating 70 years of research into something he believes are the team dynamics fundamentals that everyone Scrum Master should know how to leverage to help teams reach high performance

    WHO IS ARI?
    Ari provides coaching, training, and consultation for Agile Teams, Product Owners, Adoption Leaders, and executives. He has worked in the software business since 1990, including seven years of developing fault-tolerant embedded real-time systems.

    ✨This research was done in som elunlikley contexts, you will be amazed what we in the Product Agility world can learn from coal miners.
    ✨Were Coal miners the first Feature Teams?
    ✨What is the "third" relationship that we can find in a team that is not between each individual but between the individuals and something else
    ✨how can understanding thie extra entity help us to create teams whose performance sets them apart from the crowd?
    ✨What can we develop in ourselves that enables us to be aware of this and manage the power it holds over us and others?
    ✨We learn the first necessary step in team forming, that if missed could caause performacne improvement inertia
    ✨What is the role of the "situational leader" and how teams thrive because of it
    ✨✨And how this situational leadership can then lead the team to an untimely death
    ✨How can you tell if your team is in its Teenage years?
    ✨How the teams "internal questions" are the key to the next stages of team development
    ✨How long does it take for teams to reach distinguiable levels of performance
    ✨Why "Dreaming" is better than "Norming"
    ✨How can we turn this advice to communiities?
    ✨Team resiliacny, does it mean being hard so nothing effects your or soft so that they can dented and recover, becoming something new

    USEFUL LINKS
    The images Ari was showing during the episode (Team Life Cycle) - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D_GnHqZtnp1RsSnl0PBb8aQZcsYP2JZ-?usp=sharing
    Teamwork and Rewarding, a blog post by Ari - https://gosei.fi/blog/teamwork-and-rewarding/
    More info on Ari's approach - https://gosei.fi/teamwork/

    Host Bio

    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

    Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!

    Ben Maynard

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/

    🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard

    💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

    Product Agility Podcast 

    🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 

    💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

    🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility


    Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes

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    30 min
  • Enabling High Performing Teams With Ari Tikka

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    Team performance has almost become a taboo topic in the agile world, which I believe is ridiculous. Scrum Masters and Agile Team Coaches are there specifically for that reason. You can guess how I felt when Ari Tikka - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritikka/ wanted to talk about this. In a word, EXCITED.

    WHO IS ARI?
    Ari provides coaching, training, and consultation for Agile Teams, Product Owners, Adoption Leaders, and executives. He has worked in the software business since 1990, including seven years of developing fault-tolerant embedded real-time systems.

    WHAT IS IN THE EPISODE

    🎭How introducing a new vocabulary and knowledge of teamwork enables transformational team dialogue and performance
    🎭What type of work is inherently inconsequential, and why this work stops team performance improvement in its tracks
    🎭How do you resolve the big impediments? What two things are needed in a room to accelerate continuous improvement and the removal of BIG impediments? Ari shares a huge secret to his success
    🎭 How Ari's work builds on top of Richard Hackman's work (standing on the shoulders of giants - diff thumb)
    🎭What are the enabling conditions that enable teams to have great performances?
    🎭Does Ari think that psychological proofing to choose team members works?
    🎭Would you believe that coaching a team only contributes 10% towards their performance? We talk about the other 90 10% of the performance that can be influenced.
    🎭According to Richard Hackman's research, how much of an effect can coaching a team have when compared to, let's say, getting the team set up in the first place
     a coach, if coaching a team may be only influencing performance by 10%, Ari gives you some options
    🎭What is the contract game, and why should you know about it!



    USEFUL LINKS

    The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255127.The_Fifth_Discipline
    MIT Beer Simulation Game - https://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/beergame.html
    Richard Hackman's books - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/701345.J_Richard_Hackman
    Teamwork and Rewarding, a blog post by Ari - https://gosei.fi/blog/teamwork-and-rewarding/
    More info on Ari's approach - https://gosei.fi/teamwork/

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    Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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