Event

Agile CT MAY 12 2011 Meeting

Great software comes from getting your team's best ideas into the product. Jim McCarthy, who led the legendary turnaround of the Visual C++ group at Microsoft, left Microsoft in 1996 to create a team dynamics laboratory to figure out how to always create a create a high performance team.

The McCarthy lab has focused extensively on this challenge, and has produced 11 rich, precise protocols (called the Core) for making unanimous decisions, supporting quality thinking, strengthening design iterations, and incorporating feedback, emotions, nobility, and passion into products.

Learn about these protocols in this motivating, challenging talk. In just a few minutes, you can pick up the fundamentals of an entirely new class of tool.

Do you notice too much discussion and arguing and would prefer the best ideas would just get implemented now? Learn about the Decider Protocol which guarantees unanimous team decisions with accountability and moves the team forward with a bias toward action.

Do you accept that it is vitally important that you get the opinions of others about the quality of work products but notice that it is consistently painful to give and receive feedback? Learn about the Perfection Protocol which solves all the problems associated with criticism.

Do you notice that dumb things consistently happen on your team and everyone seems to lack self-awareness to some degree, including you? Learn about the Core Commitments which provide a team constitution about commitment and accountability to the team.

And learn about the Personal Alignment Protocol which allows each team member to address self-awareness around courage, integrity, passion and other virtuous behaviors.