Creating an Environment to Enable Team Engagement & Productivity
Maybe you are standing up a new agile team or are team member of a proposed team. You know that the team should sit together, but you suspect there is something more.
Or maybe you are on an existing agile team. You think your environment could be better, but you aren't exactly sure what matters most and certainly don't want to ask facilities to move things more than once or submit multiple procurement requests.
Or maybe you are still stuck in cubeville. You know you should talk to your teammates more often, but they are down the hall. You'd like to try pair programming, but the desk shape makes that hard. You really need to brainstorm and collaborate more as a whole team, but booking a conference room is a nightmare.
Camille will share recommendations on your environment setup, why they matter, the knowledge of how to justify the changes you want and how to make some trade offs when necessary.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Slides and lecture with questions at the end.
Camille will cover:
- How environment impacts engagement and productivity
- Specific recommendations
- Justifying the change
- Tradeoffs: Reality vs. the Ideal
Learning Outcome
Attendees will:
- Understand how environment impacts engagement and productivity
- Receive specific recommendations on environmental elements (desk shape, room arrangement, walls, monitors, SW tooling, etc.)
- Gain the knowledge to justify how each recommendation impacts engagement and productivity
- Learn how to make tradeoffs when the ideal environment isn't feasible
Target Audience
Managers of all levels, business folks, developers, testers and others who want to improve their environment
Links
Some, but not all of these presentations are posted on SlideShare
https://www.slideshare.net/Camille_Bell/presentations
Below is a sample of presentations & workshops Camille has given before:
- Baltimore Software Patterns and Practices, "Software Craftsmanship Workshop" - Nov 2017
- Agile DC 2016, “ What They Didn't Tell You in CSM Class” - Oct 2016
- Global Day of Code Retreat 2016, Arlington. VA event, Co-Facilitator - Oct 2016
- Baltimore Software Patterns and Practices, "Inside Behavior Driven Development" - Apr 2016
- Global Day of Code Retreat 2015, Columbia. MD event, Facilitator - Nov 2015
- Agile DC 2015, “Growing Manual Testers into Automators” - Oct 2015
- Baltimore Code Craftsmanship, “Langston's Ant Code Kata”, Facilitator - Oct 2015
- Capital Kanban (Richmond) - "Kanban Pizza Game" - Nov 2014
- Agile Philly - "Testing for Agility: Bringing Testing into Everything" – Sept 2013
- DC Agile Leadership Network - "Testing for Agility: Bringing Testing into Everything" – June 2013
- DC Scrum User Group – "Werewolf Facilitation" – Mar 2013
- B’More on Rails, NOVARUG – “Git-Bisect” – Mar 2013
- Agile DC 2012, “Adapting Agility: Getting your Agile Transformation Unstuck”, Oct. 2012
- Agile DC 2011, “Kanban Pizza Game”, Oct. 2011
- Philly Emerging Tech Expo “Adapting Agile Practices to Fit Your Situation” Apr. 2011
- B’More on Rails – “Promoting Agility with Running Tested Features” Mar 2011
- NOVARUG – “Ruby Refactoring” – Oct. 2010
- Ruby DCamp 2010, “Promoting Agility with Running Tested Features” – Sep. 2010
- Agile Coach Camp, "Running Tested Features, An Agile metric that promotes agility even when gamed","When Scrum is not Enough", March 2010
- Engineers Week – “Agile Methods” – Feb. 2010
- DCRUG – “Refactoring Ruby: Code Smells in Ruby” – Dec. 2009
- ITT – “Agility Now” – Dec. 2009
- ASQ/ IEEE/SSQ – “Agile Methods” – Nov. 2009
- Simple Design & Test Conferance – “Agile Technical Leadership” – Oct. 2009
- Ruby DCamp, “Beautiful Code”, Session Facilitator – Sep. 2009
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