Agile Adoption: Building Better Habits
summary
Argues habit change hinges on cue–behavior–reward: cues are the easiest lever, rewards live in the limbic brain and resist logic, and willpower only gets teams from zero to one. Uses handouts, simple charts, pairing logs and visible metrics; recommends stacking new habits on existing ones, engineer a crisis (office move, new starter) to increase plasticity, and run a short controlled test like try a 3‑sprint experiment with if‑then fallback plans. Suggests testing by sending a scrum master on holiday to see if the habit truly sticks.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction to workshop
- 1:56Habits and human behavior
- 3:20Instant gratification and long-term thinking
- 5:05Self-awareness and kindness
- 6:56Understanding habits in teams
- 8:20Agile habits and team practices
- 10:52Identifying bad habits
- 15:19Cues and triggers in habits
- 20:35Exercise on triggers
- 24:03Control over behavior and rewards
- 26:14Rewards and resistance to change
- 29:48Exercise on rewards
- 32:16Motivation and willpower
- 39:06Fear and epiphany in change
- 40:51Engineering crises for habit change
- 44:05Exercise on crises
- 45:08Making habits stick
- 48:57Prepare to fail and plan B
- 50:42Q&A and takeaways
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