Great agile teams do not need the best individuals

Good to Great:

Great Teams don’t need the Best Individuals

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Keynote presentation by

Vineet Patni@patnivin

This presentation was originally used for the keynote at the “Agile Coffee Talk, Amdocs” in Pune on September 23rd

2016. The theme of the meetup was “Good to Great”.

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Nicola DourambeisVP Agile Infrastructure DeliverySalesforce.com

Owner of Purple Agility LLC

Start up, consulting and large company veteran.

This is my favorite team

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Owner of Purple Agility LLC

Start up, consulting and large company veteran.

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Which is your favorite team?

What makes that team your special, favorite team? Does that team always win?

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Is there a Recipe for your Team Greatness?

What made your team… Good, Great, Incredible.. ?


What is Agile?

“Be quick, but don’t hurry.”- John Wooden

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Readiness for change, nimbleness, activity, customer focus in motion

The ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment

Agility focuses on satisfying customer with continuous value delivery

Agility is in our lives naturally. Now we are trying to be agile @ work.

Agile is responsibility with response-ability.

Agile is..


The Agile Movement began with this..

“The… ‘relay race’ approach to product development… may conflict with the goals of maximum speed and flexibility. Instead a holistic or ‘rugby’ approach – where a team tries to go the distance as a unit, passing the ball back and forth – may better serve today’s competitive requirements.”

-Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “The New, New Product Development Game” Harvard Business Review, Jan 1986.


Relay Race vs. Rugby

Stop running the relay race and take up rugby.


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The Agile Manifesto came in year 2001

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12 Agile Principles

1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.

3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.

4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need and trust them to get the job done.

6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.


12 Agile Principles

7. Working software is the primary measure of progress.8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The

sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.

10. Simplicity -- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done -- is essential.

11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.


A “New” Concept or idea

A defined process

A panacea for all your problems

A magic wand

Agile is NOT…


Agile is a TEAM SPORT

Software Engineering needs social skills like collaboration, mutual respect and trust.


Working in a TEAM

Which Team are you currently part of?

And Why?

Are you an Agile Team?


What is a Team?

Small Size

Complimentary skills

Common goal

Source: “The Wisdom of Teams" by Douglas K. Smith and Jon R. Katzenbach


Agile Teams

Disclaimer: Agile is not a magic wand


Agile has been a FAILURE?


Building Great Teams?

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Or.. Great Individual Performers?


Performance Management has become obsolete

Traditional Methods

Measuring individual in isolation

Subjective measures

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The Team Success

Source: Mary Poppendieck : "The Scaling Dilemma“ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyzY5tYQFsg )

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Building Great Teams (HPTs)

“Ok, I have a team. How do I make it great?”


High Performance Culture

The Agile Mindset



We over Me / I



An Inspiring Leader

Your team does need an Agile Coach.


Great Teams!

Team Work means succeeding or failing together!

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It was pleasure!


Vineet PatniBuilding High-Performance Teams

Lifetime Learner, passionate facilitator, coach and servant leader

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