Room
Track 2
Audience
Agile Team members and Agile Leaders
Key-Learnings
- An honest breakdown of our skills helps us to open new career paths
- Understanding our level within a chosen role helps us to understand where we've been and where we're going
- Team success is based on the interplay that arises from our skills and experience
- Team narratives are essential for making progress
Skills, strengths, talents and trappings you need to be a happy and effective party member
You've got your culture and your background, but now you want to build out your character to attack the monsters of ignorance and the bandits of effectiveness. Let's just assume you're aligned with your team, what then? Class and Level - or Role and Experience - are a good starting point. But what would be a good set of skills on which to spend your XP, and how would you level up within your Agile Team?
In this talk I want to play with the idea of framing our role and team contributions with the concept of the character sheet. It can help us to focus on areas where we have strengths, where we have weaknesses, what will take time to "level up" and what may be acquired in shorter time. I'll also look at how someone who leads a team is somewhat akin to the Game Master or GM, and that effective teams are built on the narratives that arise between characters, not just the character sheets themselves.