-Jayaprakash Puttaswamy
Creating and nurturing a team of Agile Champions
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Who is a Champion? (5 mins)
How do we identify Champions? (10 mins)
Championship MODEL (25 mins)
1.Three Phases
2.The CANVAS
3.Technique
Q&A (15 mins)
Next 60 mins!
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Who is a Champion?
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A Champion is one whom you choose to make!
A potential Champion is one who cares, is passionate about something/s and is willing to
make things happen.
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How do we identify Champions?
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The Tipping Point - 3 Rules
3 Rules
Source: http://www.innovationlabs.com/tipping_point.pdf
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• It doesn’t take large numbers of people to generate a trend
• A select few enjoy a disproportionate amount of influence over the spread of social trends
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The Law of the Few
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Types of those “few”
Connectors:• know everybody, are networkers, have many contacts
• “Connectors are social glue: they spread it.” (Gladwell)
• Have large social circles
Mavens: • possess information, expertise, and seek to share it
• “Mavens are data banks. They provide the message” (Gladwell)
• Are “in the know”
Salesman: • are persuasive
• Charismatic types
• Often rely on “soft” influence
Source: http://www.innovationlabs.com/tipping_point.pdf
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BEGIN
• Create a CANVAS
• Wax on, Wax off instructions
ACCELERATE
• Disrupt the CANVAS
• Unconventional challenges
SUSTAIN
• SILENCE!
• One BIG challenge
Championship MODEL - 3 phases
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Championship MODEL - Phase 1
1. Be respectful and earn the trust of champions
2. Create an outlet for their inner strengths [Ex: Create Championship CANVAS]
3. Teach them the basics as an art
4. Be a ruthless task master
5. Hold people accountable for their words
6. Display high degree of integrity by walking the talk
COACH’S FOCUS & BEHAVIOR
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Championship MODEL - Phase 2
1. Provide access to the blind spots of champions
2. Challenge them on fundamentals and help them deepen their understanding
3. Push them to challenge status quo
4. Encourage outcome/impact drivenexperiments [mostly unconventional]
5. Exhibit NO Tolerance culture for integrity breaches
COACH’S FOCUS & BEHAVIOR
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Championship MODEL - Phase 3
1. Create space and step out
2. Throw BIG games to play [at community or org level]
3. Encourage confronting conversations (from both sides)
4. Provide the experience of silence!
COACH’S FOCUS & BEHAVIOR
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Championship CANVAS - template
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Championship CANVAS - a sample
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari
Shu-Ha-Ri technique
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Source: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ShuHaRi.html
Shu-Ha-Ri technique
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Jayaprakash Puttaswamy (JP) works as a Director - Technology & Consulting at Aritha Consulting Services and consults enterprises in Agile and Agile-BI space.
Agile Strategist, Coach and an Enabler
Practicing agile since 11 years (RUP, XP, Scrum, Lean & Kanban)
Trained & coached over 1200 professionals spread across 140 plus teams in 35 plus companies including start-ups.
Driven large-scale agile transformation (both software & non-software) for global enterprises with scale of 50 to 4000 people.
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