The famous quote from H.E. Luccock - “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it" strongly resonates in our mind advocating the need of building strong effective teams. Similarly, Michael Jordan once said: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships”. Whether its a basketball ground, F1 racing pit or the battleground of infantry battalion of our army men, what are some of the common attributes of these ultra performing teams ? Going straight to the Individual and Interactions manifesto, this talk takes a deep dive on both these very important sauce ingredients of teams recipe. An Individual is a complex dynamic entity reflecting its needs, core values, belief systems and cognitive biases. Similarly, interactions represents an individual's expressions to the outer world and reinforced feedback message back to the inner self. Maslow's 5 stage model defines the 5 levels of an Individual needs and they all need to be well addressed to forum strong teams. This talk connects the Maslow's model with Patrick lencioni's 5 dysfunctions of Teams to uncover some core attributes of Team Behaviour. The cohesiveness of a team also depends on its members bonding and hence, the need of understanding the basic personality type before applying the common vanilla norming. We will be leveraging and exploring the Myers-Briggs Dichotomies to uncover 16 types of personalities and sharing some Agile games on ice breaking and reflecting. More to come with this Talk..

Many organizations are moving away from traditional style of software development. Though Agile practices are injected in the  Enterprise after initial study , assessments and POC's, However, to reap the real benefits of Agile , it is important to have them successfully scaled across the distributed geographies and also have the whole organization transformed towards core agility. This is where the major bumps occur, as the organizations come out of their comfort zone and move towards a new world of Agility. It gets little more complex with multiple vendors and global distribution across different time-zones.

Me and Anand are working as Agile Coaches in a similar MNC Banking IT environment and would like to share our experience on How we are transitioning a huge traditional program towards better Agility , as Global Banks are leveraging Technology for enhanced Customer Experience to deliver Business value. They are moving away from transaction driven operations to enriched user experience and hence, there is a need of incorporating faster feedback, quick turn around and continuous value delivery to be ahead in the competition. This is where the need of core agility comes in place and its a mix of science , art and common sense. Our talk will take you through a journey.....