Team Shield with a Twist - baby steps leaps and bounds
You've just formed a team - you might be the scrum master, a team member, a coach or a cheese eating vampire, question is: what now?
There are many models to team building, however most are theoretical and don't give you an inkling on what you need to be doing and what is the experience required to mold a team - and whether the team would like to mold...
This easy exercise has more to it than meets the eye, join to explore the process within the process and add another handy dandy tool for team building, which I've been using for 12 years - never fails, except when it does - I am reminded of one time in a land far-far-away of North Eurasia, it was the afternoon of the second day of an intense two day agile workshop - the coffee in the pots was lukewarm, the Fika was generous and the teams' shields were in place since the day before and yet...; but wait I'm getting ahead of myself - maybe if we have time we can discuss the failures of a shield (not the one they use in star wars) and the work arounds - that's not a promise, rather its a suggestion...I also remember the southern luxury yacht engineer who was the only one speaking throughout the session; here I go again...
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
- 5 minutes introduction
- 15 minutes creating the shields
- 10 minutes team discussion
- 5 minutes wrapping up
Learning Outcome
- Identify the steps to creating team rapport
- Understanding the individual/wholeness dichotomy and how it relates to teams
- Noticing the meta process of the initial team structuring phase
Target Audience
Scrum Masters, Coaches, Facilitators, Team members
Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMzl1qJec08
schedule Submitted 4 years ago
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