Agile in the Ether #1 / 13th July 2018

Notes from the meetup

Discussion topics

How do you set up a team to feel ownership / responsibility for the product they are building? – Emily Webber
How to work with actively hostile people? – MarkD
How has anyone researched / discovered what motivates individuals in a team? (like what are their personal motivations) Stephen
Dealing with semantic diffusion in the agile space: DevOps, TDD, Agile, …. – Fran

Topics we didn’t get a chance to discuss

How can you create time for people to take part in communities of practice? – Emily Webber
Is there such a thing as empowering yourself or can you only be empowered by others? – MarkD

Emily Webber says:

21 July 18 at 8:12 am
A few notes that I took from my topic
How do you set up a team to feel ownership / responsibility for the product they are building?

Things that can help
- it helps if it aligns to personal values
- seeing the impact that your work has on real people
- short iterations (to help with seeing the impact)
- user research
Things that can hinder
- distance from ownership of the work
- being a supplier in an agency making work for someone else (and with different motivations e.g. budget)
- prescriptive product owner
Some additional links to things that were mentioned during the call
- user manual for me https://medium.com/@cassierobinson/a-user-manual-for-me-d3a851fbc694
- How to Win Hearts & Minds – Lessons Learned from Electoral Politics / Kate Gray & Chris Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg-M9RVH4X4
- Dan Pink’s Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc