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Full name

Jeroen Molenaar

Job Agile Consultant
email jeroen [at] j-mo [dot] nl
Phone number +31641856434
Company Xebia
City (Country) Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Time 1h30
Type of Conference Conference > 100 attendees
Level Everybody

ShuHaRi for the Agile employee - Personal growth trough a visual workspace

Biography

I am an eager and result driven Agile coach / Change agent with a broad experience and background in Java (web) development and architecture. I build an extensive knowledge and experience in the Scrum methodology and am a pragmatic, hands-on, yet a creative solution solver. I like building bridges between business and IT and like to call myself the "well communicating nerd". In the agile coaching role I try to motivate team members, enabling everyone to excel in their own specific discipline. Besides that I love to get the organization in a vibe where we can create small agile speedboats from the big oil-tanker boats; get the entrepreneurial skills and behavior back to the enterprise. Create and measure proper value where it's possible and most effective! I build a broad experience as a Scrum Master / coach and have experienced the ups and downs every project faces in management as well as hands-on roles. This enables me to quickly determine, select, solve and master issues on new projects. I am a very pragmatic focused Agile coach, achieving results in accordance with clients desirements and needs. The building up a broad experience in the technical environments and a considerable amount of mobile experience and knowledge, shows my eagerness to keep up with the latest trends. Latest trend to showcase is the scrum outside of IT; ING marketing scrum. Specialties: Change Agent of mobile or web companies or teams. Agile / Scrum coach in enterprises or transitions. Presented at: Scrum gathering 2012 - Atlanta Agile 2014 - Orlando

Description

At previous companies I have worked at, we had several pages for our personal development plan. Tens of pages where you needed to fill in all kinds of standardized questions. That activity short-circuited my head. How could a personal plan contain all those standard questions? That plan could never be personal. This ineffective strategy led to my goal to develop an Agile assessment model which is personal, practical, visual and easy to understand and use. Here I will describe how I made my own plan and how you can go and create and use yours. Goal is to explain that large assessmentforms don't work but fast feedback and a visual workspace do! As a consultant I saw a few companies using long documents or forms for assessments that would serve as input for yearly reviews. They were very impersonal to use and most people didn’t take or feel ownership to fill them in. What happens when we don’t feel ownership? We most likely won’t comply or follow up and we definitely won’t get the best plan we can out of it. In the work field of the (Agile) employee the term ShuHaRi is often used to describe the maturity level of a team. Actually ShuHaRi comes from Japanese martial arts and describes the stages of learning through to mastery. In Shu, we repeat the forms and discipline. We remain faithful to the forms with no deviation. In the next stage of Ha, when we have disciplined ourselves to acquire the forms and movements, we make innovations. Finally, in Ri, we completely depart from the forms, we feel unhindered while not overstepping laws. If a concept can be used for martial arts and then be suited to a Scrum team why not to ourselves again? To begin, I developed a concept for the (Agile) employee to apply ShuHaRi to himself. I did not want to make this model a standard form again. I asked myself “what is the reason that our teams achieve so much and how do they clearly track their progression?” One of the most important tools is the visual workspace. Why not create a visual workspace for ourselves? Because it needs to be portable? I found a great solution to create a portable personal development workspace where we track our ShuHaRi level on several aspects professionally as well as personally - embracing life balance. Then in that same workspace we start tracking actions to grow in all these aspects while focussing on one or two at a time. Learn in this session how the model works and how to create your own ShuHaRi board. From there you can learn how to customize the model not forgetting the principles behind it. In the session we will build a few boards for volunteers to practice on. Be inspired to go use your board the very next day! Outline or Timetable 5 mins intro 10 mins - How do we assess our employees now 10 mins - Why is this less effective (compare to 'old' way of working / not agile etc.) 15 mins - How would agile employee assessment work then? 20 mins - How would you construct a ShuHaRi board 5 mins - closing

Benefits for the attendees

To explain that large assessmentforms don't work but fast feedback and a visual workspaces Do! Be inspired to go use your own personal growth workspace the very next day! Learn in this session how the model works and how to create your own ShuHaRi board. From there you can learn how to customize the model not forgetting the principles behind it. In the session we could build a few boards for volunteers to practice on.

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