Courage in the middle of Conflict
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Introductory slides to the XP Manchester workshop on logical conflict resolution at the November 2013 meeting http://xpmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/nov-14th-courage-in-the-middle-of-conflict/
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Courage in the middle of Conflict
- 1. C OURAGE IN THE MIDDLE OF C ONFLICT Resolving conflict methodically with the Conflict Resolution Diagram from Theory of Constraints Ash Moran ash.moran@patchspace.co.uk PatchSpace Ltd @patchspace
- 2. T HE F IVE XP V ALUES Simplicity Courage Feedback Communication Respect
- 3. C OURAGE Courage is effective action in the face of fear. … Without intending to diminish the kind of physical courage demonstrated by a soldier, it is certainly true that people involved in software development feel fear. ~ Kent Beck
- 4. F EAR Physical harm Loss of security Damage to ego Loss of autonomy + + + Fear + + + Loss of effectiveness Isolation (not exhaustive)
- 5. C OMPLEX S YSTEMS Spend more! Stop arguing and make some f*in money! Be bold! Marketing Sales Buy Macs! Investors Be cautious! Software Legal Spend less! Purchasing Finance Buy PCs! IT HR
- 6. C ONFLICT Resolve conflict Identify conflict Express the situation clearly Surface assumptions Find creative solutions
- 7. I DENTIFYING A C ONFLICT
- 8. C ONFLICT S CENARIO : L IMITED RESOURCES HoldYourHand Hosting provides managed server hosting to large and small clients. Recently they’ve been suffering an unusually large number of outages. In a number of cases, support staff have handled follow-up calls badly and upset clients. As a reaction, many managers have taken to jumping on issues themselves. “Managers think they know our job best!” and “Support staff are complete idiots!” and are often heard shouted around. Support staff are scared to speak to clients, and managers are overwhelmed with firefighting. Who should handle the clients, support staff or managers?
- 9. E XPRESSING THE S ITUATION C LEARLY
- 10. P RE - REQUISITES Managers call clients Support staff call clients
- 11. R EQUIREMENTS Preserve client relationships Managers call clients Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 12. C OMMON G OAL Preserve client relationships Managers call clients Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients Run a successful business
- 13. T HE C ONFLICT Preserve client relationships Managers call clients Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients Run a successful business
- 14. S URFACING A SSUMPTIONS
- 15. R EQUIREMENT 1 Preserve client relationships Run a successful business We need clients to be successful We can’t afford to lose clients We can’t find new clients
- 16. R EQUIREMENT 2 Management time is scarce Managers have a specific role to play in improving the business Run a successful business If managers are distracted, the long-term health of the business is compromised Use mgmt time appropriately
- 17. P RE - REQUISITE 1 Preserve client relationships Managers call clients Managers are better at dealing with clients than support staff Clients are going to leave if they get bad service from support staff Support staff can’t learn to make good calls
- 18. P RE - REQUISITE 2 Managers don’t have time to make calls Support calls are operational work, not management work Support staff have useful knowledge about outages when making calls Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 19. T HE C ONFLICT Managers call clients Managers and support staff can’t both make support calls Support staff call clients
- 20. W ORD I T TO B REAK I T
- 21. R EQUIREMENT 1 Preserve client relationships Run a successful business We need clients to be successful We can’t afford to lose ONE SINGLE client We can’t find ANY new clients
- 22. R EQUIREMENT 2 Management time is scarce Managers have a specific role to play in improving the business Run a successful business If managers are distracted AT ALL, the long-term health of the business is compromised Use mgmt time appropriately
- 23. P RE - REQUISITE 1 Preserve client relationships Managers call clients ALL managers are MUCH better at dealing with clients than support staff ANY clients will leave if they get JUST ONE bad call from support staff Support staff CAN’T POSSIBLY learn to make good calls
- 24. P RE - REQUISITE 2 Managers don’t have ANY time to make calls Support calls are operational work, not management work ONLY support staff have useful knowledge about outages when making calls Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 25. T HE C ONFLICT Managers call clients EITHER managers OR support staff must both make ALL support calls Support staff call clients
- 26. C HALLENGE A SSUMPTIONS
- 27. R EQUIREMENT 1 Preserve client relationships Run a successful business We need clients to be successful ❌ We can’t afford to lose ONE SINGLE client ❌ We can’t find ANY new clients
- 28. R EQUIREMENT 2 Management time is scarce Managers have a specific role to play in improving the business Run a successful business ❌ If managers are distracted AT ALL, the long-term health of the business is compromised Use mgmt time appropriately
- 29. P RE - REQUISITE 1 Preserve client relationships Managers call clients ❌ ALL managers are MUCH better at dealing with clients than support staff ❌ ANY clients will leave if they get JUST ONE bad call from support staff ❌ Support staff CAN’T POSSIBLY learn to make good calls
- 30. P RE - REQUISITE 2 ❌ Managers don’t have ANY time to make calls Support calls are operational work, not management work ❌ ONLY support staff have useful knowledge about outages when making calls Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 31. T HE C ONFLICT Managers call clients EITHER managers OR support staff ❌ must both make ALL support calls Support staff call clients
- 32. F IND C REATIVE S OLUTIONS
- 33. P RE - REQUISITE 1 Preserve client relationships Managers call clients Target management calls on the most important situations (Do we know which these are???) Train support staff (Who? How? When?)
- 34. P RE - REQUISITE 2 Give more information to managers before calls (Do we have this???) Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 35. T HE C ONFLICT Call training for staff Preserve client relationships Run a successful business Managers call clients Target management calls Highlight information Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 36. D EVELOP W IN -W IN S OLUTIONS
- 37. P RE - REQUISITE 1 Preserve client relationships Managers call clients Restrict management calls to clients worth over 5% of business or with complaints in the last 8 weeks Allocate 2 hours per week to be spent on training calls for support staff
- 38. P RE - REQUISITE 2 Create a system for support staff to flag significant information to managers before making calls Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 39. T HE C ONFLICT Call training for staff Preserve client relationships Run a successful business Managers call clients Target management calls Highlight information Use mgmt time appropriately Support staff call clients
- 40. T HE C ONFLICT Call training for staff Preserve client relationships Target management calls Run a successful business Use mgmt time appropriately Highlight information
- 41. F INAL S TEP OF THE C YCLE Have courage to commit to the solution: a solution never implemented is worse than a solution never promised.
- 42. D ISCUSSION P OINT The company experienced a period of long outages to high-profile clients. Many of the support staff were junior members with little experience. Was it reasonable to expect support staff to handle these calls well? What plausible scenarios might have caused this situation and in which of them is blaming the support staff fair?
- 43. O BSTACLES TO C ONFLICT R ESOLUTION
- 44. S ELF - INTEREST If we resolve this fairly, I might not get what I want, so I’ll fight for my side.
- 45. S ELF - DISINTEREST I’m not that important, and my opinion isn’t worth much, so I’ll let the other side win.
- 46. C OMPROMISE The most important thing is to keep everyone happy, so we’ll let everyone have an equal share of what they want.
- 47. C ONFUSION & T ERROR I don’t have a clue what’s going on around me any more, I don’t even want to say a word.
- 48. C OGNITIVE D ISSONANCE Logic says X; but I believe Y, so logically: X must be wrong, KILL IT WITH FIRE.
- 49. W ORKSHOP
- 50. R EFERENCES
- 51. I T ’ S N OT L UCK Eli Goldratt
- 52. T HE L OGICAL T HINKING P ROCESS William Dettmer
- 53. T HEORY OF C ONSTRAINTS H ANDBOOK Edited by James F Cox and John G Schleier