Coaching Session 2 October 22, 2020

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In case of emergency... A workshop for

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Training
Coaching session 2 Date: October 22, 2020
session:

Trainer Bogdan Mureșan Location Online, Microsoft Teams

Trainer email bogdan.muresan@colorsinprojects.ro Time 9.00 – 12.00

Company Colors in Projects Coffee break 10.30 – 10.45

Website www.colorsinprojects.ro
About us: A workshop for

Consulting Services

Coaching and Mentoring

Training and Personal Development

On the market since 2007 (www.colorsinprojects.ro)

LEARNING BY HAVING FUN – A workshop for
BOARD GAME ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

A fun game with lots of AHA! moments related to best practices in project management.

Learningby
Learning byexperimenting
experimenting and
andhaving
havingfun
fun
▪ Involving ”players” in concrete project situations
where project and team management decisions are
required
▪ Understanding the importance of decisions taken
during the project and their impact o the successful
completion of the project
▪ Collaborating among project teams to manage limited
resources
▪ Summarizing fundamental concepts and best practices
about project management

The board game can be played internally in companies, with support from
an internal or external PM Galaxy facilitator. The game is also available if
you wish to have it at home, in your game collection. ☺
Stay tuned for PM news... A workshop for
Clienți cu care ne mândrim (selecție): A workshop for
Trainer: Career (selection):
• VP of Technology, Connatix
• Optimisation Agile Coach @
PaddyPowerBetfair
• Trainer @ Colors in Projects
• Founder @ NoobChoice
• Senior Director of Engineer
@ 3PillarGlobal
• Developer & Architect @
Transart, @Temasoft,
@Kaisha-tec.
A workshop for
Experience:
• Agile Transformations &
Adoptions
• Agile Methodologies (Scrum,
Kanban)
• Project Management,
building, motivating and
leading development teams
• Software Application
Architecture & Design
• Backend & Web
Development

About me, beyond the CV:

I like sports, mostly fly fishing, basketball and swimming.

Words that define me:

Bogdan Mureșan Until yesterday I was a newbie...
 Q&A
Non-Agile Clients
Manage the PO
New teams productivity challenges
Customer collaboration
Teams - From Forming to Storming

Agenda
Coaching Session 2
Prerequisites - Leadership A workshop for
Five dysfunctions of a team A workshop for

Patrick Lencionni
Teams - From Forming to Storming A workshop for

▪ Is the team stuck in Forming phase?

▪ What do we expect from Storming phase?
▪ What stops the team to move into the next phase?

▪ Leader effectiveness and adaptability description (LEAD) Paul Hersey and Kenneth
Blanchard (telling or directing, selling or coaching, sharing or participating,
delegating)
▪ Overcommitting to push the limits (“force” them to progress)
▪ Rotate ownership (e.g. remove roadblocks delegation of management responsibilities)
 Q&A
Non-Agile Clients
Manage the PO
New teams productivity challenges
Customer collaboration
Teams - From Forming to Storming

Agenda
Coaching Session 2
 A workshop for
New teams productivity challenges
▪ Is the team fit for purpose?
▪ How is the productivity measured?
▪ Does the team have a growth / improvement mindset?
▪ In what stage is the team stuck?

▪ Team identity exercise

▪ Understand their goal
▪ Understand how they accomplish their goal
▪ Strengths / weaknesses exercises (e.g. Gallup)
▪ Track you evolution exercise
 A workshop for
Team Canvas - mural.co
 Q&A
Non-Agile Clients
Manage the PO
New teams productivity challenges
Customer collaboration
Teams - From Forming to Storming

Agenda
Coaching Session 2
Cultures and Agile A workshop for
 A workshop for
Difficult situations

Clients with limited knowledge who strongly believe they

are experts.

PO (client side) with strong Agile knowledge but not align

to company Ways of Working.

Clients with no desire to go Agile.

Client stuck in the wrong Agile framework.

Clients willing to transform but not able to transform.

Dealing with Non-Agile clients A workshop for

▪ Understanding the client culture

▪ Who drives the decisions?
▪ Who sets the objectives?
▪ What are the constraints triggered by the client Ways of Working?
▪ Map Agile on the Client culture
▪ Does it fit?
▪ What are the benefits?
▪ Identify key person(s) to work start the champion Agile adoption (if possible)
 Q&A
Non-Agile Clients
Manage the PO
New teams productivity challenges
Customer collaboration
Teams - From Forming to Storming

Agenda
Coaching Session 2
 A workshop for
Cultivating collaboration with customers
▪ Key questions
▪ “What are you goals”?
▪ “How can I support you”?

▪ Key threats
▪ Empathy, partnership & support.

▪ Build trust through

▪ Results
▪ Ownership - own your actions & results
▪ Transparency
 Q&A
Non-Agile Clients
Manage the PO
New teams productivity challenges
Customer collaboration
Teams - From Forming to Storming

Agenda
Coaching Session 2
Managing the PO A workshop for

▪ Is the PO empowered to perform his role?

▪ Does he has ownership on priorities?
▪ What are the gaps between our expectations and PO behaviour?

▪ Manage the PO
▪ Influence
▪ Let them fail

▪ Train the PO
▪ Prioritisation games
▪ “Force” to apply techniques to see the big picture - e.g. Story mapping
Prioritisation games A workshop for

▪ Buy a feature
1. Create a list of features with estimated cost
2. Distribute money … but not too much
3. Customers buy features that they want

▪ Product box
1. Give a white empty box to create the “product box”.
– Limited printing space and forces feature selection
prioritisation on a must-have basis.
User Story Mapping A workshop for

▪ Story maps selects and groups features, indicates

customer-valued prioritization and are used to
plan a roadmap.
• Used for setting the right development
priorities
• Group of backlogged stories broken down and
organised by user functionality

▪ Tells the “story” of how the user is interacting

with the product, in a logical flow

▪ Used in stakeholder communication as an

information radiator
Coaching Session 2 October 24, 2020

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