{"id":203,"date":"2019-01-09T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertkalweit.com\/en\/?p=203"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T10:44:13","slug":"global-scrum-gathering-london-2018-recap-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertkalweit.com\/en\/2019\/01\/09\/global-scrum-gathering-london-2018-recap-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Scrum Gathering London 2018 Recap Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Scrum Gathering London 2018 Recap Part 2 – Leadership, Culture and Scaling<\/h1>\r\n

More than the Scrum Gatherings before, this conference focused much on culture and values. Why that? My guess: The ScrumAlliance has realized that focusing on practices and individual behaviors does indeed help spread the use of Scrum in countless teams across the globe. But it doesn’t (reliably!) transform companies. To do that we have to focus on culture and values and on the leadership shaping those. This second part of the Global Scrum Gathering recap is about leadership, about scaling agile and about company culture. I\u2019ve summarized the 6 sessions about these topics I\u2019ve visited at the conference and provide some background and links to further sources for those who became curious.<\/p>\r\n

Keynote: The Psychology of Creating a High Performing Culture – Damian Hughes<\/h3>\r\n

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\"\"What a Keynote! I’m still under the spell. I was so busy thinking<\/em>, that I couldn’t spend much time memorizing<\/em>. Damian Hughes talk was both engaging, with a lot of activities involving the audience, and inspiring, with interesting concepts being conveyed and showcased. One of the activities was above riddle – have you figured it out yet?<\/p>\r\n

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The five STEPS<\/strong> to create a high performing culture are Simple<\/strong>,\u00a0Tripwire<\/strong>, Emotion<\/strong>, Practical<\/strong> and Storytelling<\/strong>. Here’s what I noted about at steps 3 to 5:<\/p>\r\n

Emotions<\/strong> are not created by abstract terms. That’s why most company value statements are so unrelatable: When asked to think of the Eiffel Tower you know how it looks. When asked to think of an apple you know how it looks and tastes. When I write “famous Beatles songs”, you immediately remember the tune of one. That’s how emotions are triggered. When I mention “our company values justice” – you will agree, but you can’t quite relate.<\/p>\r\n

Asking “How clever are you?” is not a very practical<\/strong> question. Nobody will answer “not very much”. A much more practical question, and this is the spirit which should be the benchmark for all questions, is “How are you clever?”. Here you will get different and much more valuable answers: Somebody might be really freaking good with numbers, other people are incredible good with people. Both are clever in their ways.<\/p>\r\n

Then he told us about Pixars “secret” to storytelling<\/strong>: It’s six simple stages: Once upon a time… Every day… One day… Because of that… Because of this… Until finally… For example:<\/p>\r\n

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Once upon a time there was an agile blog author who struggled with fellowship of his blog. Every day he thought about great ideas for content, but couldn’t quite put it into a nice, compelling format. One day he visited the Scrum Gathering London 2018 where he saw an amazing key note. Because of that his story telling improved. Because of this his blog posts became much more exciting. Until finally people started following his blog.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

(Hint: Start following my blog on the top right of this page \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\r\n

Here’s a playlist I curated containing the 5 STEPS explanations by Damian Hughes:<\/p>\r\n