Learning is key to agile success

nurturing a learning culture on your agile team

Declan Whelanhttp://www.slideshare.net/dwhelan

JohnnyWhoop

Beginner’s Mind

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.”

Shunryu Suzuki

Learning study

accumulateknowledge

child indoorway

bird leavingnest

youth

practice continuously

4 I Learning Culture Map

accumulateknowledge

child indoorway

bird leavingnest

youth

Intentional

Infrastructure

Incremental

Individual Safety

Learning

I know algebra

I know Lucy

Culture

“How we do things around here in order to succeed.”

Schneider, 1994

Culture

Collaboration Control

Cultivation Competence

http://vimeo.com/4670102

Culture change is free!

John Seddon

Learning = Value Delivered

Time

“ … where people continually expand their

capacity to create the results they truly desire,

where new and expansive patterns of thinking are

nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and

where people are continually

learning to learn together”

Learning Organization

Peter SengeThe Fifth Discipline

Personal Mastery

Mental Models

Shared Vision

Team Learning

Systems Thinking

Learning Organization

Personal History Exercise

Face your partner and tell them:1. Your name2. How many children in your family3. A difficult or challenging thing you faced as a child

B = f(p,e)

Esther Derby, 1994

Behaviour

Person Environment

Bperceived = f(P,e)

FundamentalAttribution Error

Satir Change Model

Learning

Source: http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-articles/article/the-satir-change-model.html

Change

Response

Check Adjust

Do Plan

Value

Loser Ball

Fight or Flight

Executive Function

AreasFight or FlightAreas

Virginia Satir“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”

Safe-Fail

For without making mistakes, learning isn't possible.

It’s all about safe-fail experiments instead of fail-safe thinking.

Naresh Jain

Individual SafetyBuild Safety

•“invite” participation•anonymous participation•provide alternatives•lean towards the less powerful

How do We Learn?Auditory

Kinesthetic

Visual

L Brain R Brain

Xhttp://psi.sagepub.com/content/9/3/105.abstract

Brain Map

Neural Circuits

Lead with the Concrete

Personal Learning

• Books• Conferences– Open Spaces – Agile Coach Camp– AYE

• Mindmaps• Reading – SQ3R– Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review

Personal Learning

Draw a Hand in

45 seconds

http://www.thiagi.com/pfp/IE4H/august2005.html#99Seconds

Plato’s Cave

Discussion Dialog

Unaligned Team Learning

Aligned Team Learning

Pairing

Create Learning Sessions

Brown bagsStudy groupsEtudesKatasRoad trips

Retrospective Format

Set the stageGather dataGenerate insightsDecide what to doClose

Diverge & Converge

Source: Chris Corrigan blog: http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1265

An answer isan invitation

to stop learning

Jean Tabaka

Ask Questions

Team Communication

• ORID

ORID questionsActive listeningOpen ended questions

Coach

Source: (2009) Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley

Teach

Source: Phil Geldhart, “In Your Hands”

Phil Geldart, Eagles Flight

“Teachers are architects building concepts and ideas into the minds of their listeners”

Create Practice Fields

Create Learning Times

Schedule slackGold cardsLunch & learns

Learning Workspace

Tinkering School

http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in_action.html

“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself.

But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.”

Shunryu Suzuki

4 I Learning Culture Map

accumulateknowledge

child indoorway

bird leavingnest

youth

Intentional

Infrastructure

Incremental

Individual Safety

4I Learning Culture Map

Intentional

Incremental

Incremental

Individual Safety

Infrastructure

Intentional