This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor in the Culture & Methods area, spoke to Richard Kasperowski at the QCon San Francisco conference.
Key Takeaways
- Agile is not new, and the ideas help organisations focus on building the right thing and building it right
- High performing teams have some specific characteristics which can be measured
- Over 200 different things have been identified as “the one thing” needed for high performance
- All the research shows that the social/cultural factors are more important than technical skills for high performance
- The behaviour patterns of the Core Protocols seem to cause high performing teams
- To work well as a high performing team, the members must be able to connect with each other effectively
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0m:30s - Introductions
1m:35s - Agile is not a new set of ideas
1m:55s - The inflection-point, where organisations grow beyond being start-ups and need to change their way of working
2m:10s - What is special about agile – build the right thing and build it right
2m:45s - The importance of high technical standards
3m:15s - Characteristics of high performing teams
4m:05s - Research which explains the things that make high performing teams
4m:55s - Over 200 different things that have been identified as “the one thing” needed for high performance
5m:20s - Survey by Gama Sutra – the importance of shared vision
5m:50s - Google – the importance of Psychological Safety
6m:40s - Describing what team emotional intelligence is and why it matters
7m:35s - Hi individual emotional intelligence does not necessarily result in high team emotional intelligence
7m:50s - All the research shows that the social/cultural factors are more important than technical skills for high performance
8m:35s - The value of the Core Protocols which seem to cause high performing teams
9m:55s - The link between the Core Protocols and team emotional intelligence
10m:00s - An example of the “check-in” protocol
10m:25s - You can teach the Core Protocols, which induce high team EI & psychological safety
11m:15s - Learning the Core Protocols is similar to learning a second language
11m:45s - Learning through intentional practice to raise individual and team EI
12m:05s - What the Core Protocols are and how they were identified
12m:55s - A pattern language for attaining personal self-awareness
13m:25s - Explaining the Check-in core protocol
14m:10s - Core Protocols as a set of instructions, like a programming language
15m:15s - To work well as a high performing team, the members must be able to connect with each other effectively
Mentioned:
- QCon San Francisco workshop
- kasperowski.com
- New York Times article on Google’s research
- Gamasutra
- Core Protocols
- Book – Software for your Head
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