Are You Playing in the Champions or the Neighborhood League
summary
Compares high-performance Agile teams with elite and amateur sports teams (football, basketball, water polo) to identify practices useful for building better software teams. Describes concrete ideas from sports clubs’ methods for creating and maintaining elite teams—training, community, methodology—and translates those lessons into Scrum Master and coaching practices for teams at work and in development.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Leadership in teams
- 3:11Building elite teams
- 11:24Hiring and culture
- 16:42Process over results
- 24:05Horizontal growth and training
- 29:44Desired performance level
- 34:40Self-organization and trust
- 37:42Summary and Q&A
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