Ready, set, liftoff! Align your team to one purpose: successful delivery. Learn new insights and techniques for starting projects and teams the right way, with expanded concepts for planning, organizing, and conducting liftoff meetings. Real-life stories illustrate how others have effectively started (or restarted) their teams and projects. Master coaches Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies have successfully "lifted off" numerous agile projects worldwide. Are you ready for success?
Every team needs a great start. If you're a business or product leader, team coach or agile practice lead, project or program manager, you'll gain strategic and tactical benefits from liftoffs.
Discover new step-by-step instructions and techniques for boosting team performance in this second edition of Liftoft. Concrete examples from our practices show you how to get everyone on the same page from the start as you form the team. You'll find pointers for refocusing an effort that's gone off in the weeds, and practices for working with teams as complex systems. See how to scale liftoffs for multiple teams across the enterprise, address the three key elements for collaborative team chartering, establish the optimal conditions for learning and improvement, and apply the GEFN (Good Enough for Now) rule for efficient liftoffs. Throughout the book are stories from real-life teams lifting off, as seasoned coaches describe their experiences with liftoffs and agile team chartering.
Focused conversations help the team align, form, and build enough trust for collaborating. You'll build a common understanding of the teams' context within business goals. Every liftoff is unique, but success is common!
Author(s): Diana Larsen, Ainsley Nies
Edition: 2
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Year: 2016
Language: English
Commentary: True PDF
Pages: 172
City: Raleigh, NC
Tags: Management; Best Practices; Agile; Team Management; Performance; Teamwork
Cover
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Defying Gravity
What Is a Liftoff?
Why We Wrote This Book
What's Inside?
Who'll Benefit from Reading This Book?
1. Plan for a Successful Liftoff
Are You Ready to Plan a Liftoff?
Who Plans the Liftoff?
Planning the Liftoff
It's Never Too Late
What's Next?
In Practice: Team Restart
2. Navigate Learning Environments
Setting Conditions for Optimal Team Learning
Focus on Learning
What's Next?
In Practice: Applying the Rules
3. Design a Great Liftoff for Your Team
Initial Design Considerations
Designing the Start
The Heart of Your Liftoff
Ending Your Liftoff
What's Next?
In Practice: A Kickoff Workshop Gem
4. Smooth the Path to Performance with Agile Chartering
What Is Agile Chartering?
Leading the Two Parts of Chartering
Amending the Living Charter
What's Next?
In Practice: The System Tracking Project
5. Charter a Clear Team Purpose
Understanding Purpose
How to Facilitate Agile Chartering for Purpose
What's Next?
In Practice: How a Team Found the Power of Purpose
6. Create Coherence by Chartering Alignment
Understanding Alignment
How to Facilitate Agile Chartering for Alignment
What's Next?
In Practice: Team Building in Transition
7. Charter Context to Influence Work
Understanding Context
How to Facilitate Agile Chartering for Context
What's Next?
In Practice: A Tale of Two Projects
8. Soar from Liftoff to Flight
Preparing for a Liftoff Retrospective
Conducting a Liftoff Retrospective
Keeping the Team Charter Alive
Have a Great Flight!
In Practice: The Yardbirds
A1. Sample Charters
A2. Sample Chartering Agendas
A3. Contributor Biographies
Bibliography
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