A \u201cmust have\u201d for organizations serious about building a Culture of Experimentation and Learning. Many of you have heard about the importance of psychological safety in teams and organizations. Google\u2019s Project Aristotle, Amy Edmondson, and William A. Kahn in their independent research identified psychological safety as one of the most critical elements in enabling engagement, innovation, and high performance. If you are following the DevOps movement, you will recognize safety as a prerequisite for the Third Way of DevOps \u2013 \u201cCulture of Continual Experimentation and Learning\u201d Yet, in many organizations today one can observe symptoms of fear: endless meetings, employees\u2019 disengagement, blame and a lack of trust. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way! Help your teams and your organization take the first step away from a culture of fear. You can enable deep conversation and move closer to a culture of learning and psychological safety with \u201cFear in the Workplace\u201d Agile game.<\/p>\n
Initially designed by Dana Pylayeva for her keynote session at Agile Games 2018, this set is a collection of typical signs of toxic culture in the workplace. The fears in this deck have been discovered in coaching engagements in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, and Japan. When is a good time to use \u201cFear in the Workplace\u201d? We used the Fear cards in retrospectives, one-on-one coaching conversations, Lean Coffee, and Community of Practice meetups. Somehow, pointing to silly monster images, dot-voting, and prioritizing them for further conversations helped to externalize feelings, to step back, and to have deep discussions. In one of the organizations, we even brought in the Fear deck to facilitate a conversation between a new remote manager and her co-located team. As one of the team members noted: \u201cIt was so simple and SO effective, propelling the conversation forward in ways we never would have been able to otherwise.\u201d Every card in this deck has a story. Together they give the teams a shared vocabulary, externalize fears, and simplify difficult conversations. As featured in \u2013 Agile Games 2018 Keynote, Boston, USA \u2013 Agile Camp San Francisco 2018, USA \u2013 INTED2019 \u2013 13th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Spain \u2013 Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019, USA \u2013 Agile + DevOps West 2019, Las Vegas, USA (\u201cYou Can\u2019t Have DevOps if Fear Is Running Your Workplace\u201d )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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