By Tom Reynolds
Over recent months I have been working with Lyssa Adkins to improve my coaching skills. One of our areas of focus has been team start-up and our expectation that we have for our teams to become high performing. In our work together, Lyssa shared some team start-up exercises to use with new teams. I had an opportunity to put some of these ideas into practice recently and want to share that experience with the Scrum community.
Team start ups cover three areas:
- The process
- The team and individuals
- The project
This article will focus on the work I did with the process.
Starting a team off on the right foot is an essential part of building solid foundations for the team. Don’t skip this step. It’s true that start-up exercises take some effort and thought to prepare; however, the work that is put in at the start will pay dividends further down the line.
