Slides from the workshop presented by Ellen Grove and Miek Bowler at Agile Games 2015 in Cambridge MA

1. Amazing LEGO model from
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108419179389291163454/post
s/brkw1ZPjrzj

2. Everything is awesome
when you’re part of a
team!:
working agreements and navigating conflict
Ellen Grove & Mike Bowler
Agile Games 20152015

4. Where all think
alike, no one
thinks very
much.
Walter Lippman, The Stakes of Democracy 1915
@eegrove

5. Building Alignment:
Simple Guiding Principles and Working Agreements
Principles will help us as we choose
between alternatives. We will
prefer an alternative that meets the
principles more fully to one that
doesn’t. Each principle embodies
the values.
By defining working
agreements, your team
members forge a pact
about how they will
interact, behave and
produce

6. What’s important to me as a team member?
What do we value and how do we show it?
How do we want to treat each other?
What do we want to do when we don’t
agree?

7. Relationships
Externals/
Moods
Data Structure
Values
Interests
------------Furlong’s Circle of Conflict-------------

8. Build a bridge

9. Why Play?
• The lonely guy

10. Download from
http://seriousplay.com

11. LEGO SERIOUS PLAY
Etiquette
• Facilitator sets the challenge, timelines and
guides the process.
• The model is your answer to the challenge.
• There are no wrong answers!!!
• Think with your hands.
• Listen with your eyes and ears.
• Everyone builds & everyone talks.
• Set your gadgets aside, please

12. Explain this!
Improv
Golf
Continuous Delivery
Crayons
Ice cream

13. Explain this!
Bicycling
Climate Change
Puppets
Yogurt
Falling

14. Explain this!
Pair programming
Flowers
Chocolate
Profit
Sailing

15. Best team member ever….or worst.

16. Pick a brick! What colour is conflict?

17. What kind of help do I need from my team?

18. What should we do if one of us is
letting the team down?

19. What guideline do you think needs to be in
the team working agreement?

20. Thank you!
egrove@agilepartnership.com
@eegrove
masteringtheobvious.wordpress.com
mbowler@gargoylesoftware.com
@mike_bowler
www.gargoylesoftware.com
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® info: seriousplay.com