Agile Coaching Team

Engaged and accountable teams that push the product forward are a great treasure to any business. Companies expect team leads and managers to cultivate these teams, fostering engagement and motivation.

But how exactly is a leader supposed to do that? By giving inspiring speeches? Mastering psychological tactics? Offering bonuses?

In this talk, I’ll share real-world examples of what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to engaging teams in product development and collaborative decision-making.

In the Agile community, we talk a lot about the "self-organized" or "self-managed" teams. But many organizations have already gone beyond that and let people not only choose HOW to work, but also WHICH problems to address or WHOM to work with.
In his talk, Denis would like to share his key findings and lessons learned while conducting self-design events and providing further support to self-designed organizational structures over the last four years. You will learn how having the freedom to choose whom to work with and what goal to pursue affects motivation, commitment, focus, quality, and outcomes of the Product delivery and its contributors.

You're a manager and you've done things the smart way! You hired a great team, bought them some bean bags and a coffee machine, and set an ambitious goal. Now's the time to screw it all up! In my presentation, I'll cover 7 examples of dysfunctions in the team-manager relationship and how to prevent or fix them.

Failing to make awesome teams? You just don't know how to ‘cook’ them! The basic recipe is simple: Take 5-7 motivated professionals, add salt, pepper and an ambitious goal, stew over a slow fire of motivation for 2 weeks – pour the result on the product! However as soon as you start cooking, everything goes wrong - conflicts, distrust towards the leader, low motivation, poor results, staff turnover... What is the secret ingredient of the most close-knit and productive Agile teams? In this presentation, I will share the secrets of Agile-cookery: how to create a strong product team, set up communication and mutual support, and become a real Agile leader in your team