Paul Tevis

Principal Coach & Consultant @HelpingImprove. Also: Food & Wine Lover, Strength Nerd, Sword Fighter, Medievalist, Gamer+Improviser+Podcaster Emeritus.
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Two weeks from today, I'll be running a workshop at #Agile2023 about navigating team conflict (and avoiding mistakes I've made). Who will I get to see there? https://t.co/y3jZuYN4Bu

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@agileschools I put it on zucchini bread. And on veggie sandwiches.

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@scribblingfox Books, books, books. All the books!

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If I can answer “Yes” to all these, I’m ready to talk with them about what’s going on.

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[Paul Tevis @ptevis]

When working with someone who isn’t meeting my expectations, I ask myself these questions.

Do I know what I expect?
Can I describe when my expectation is being met and not?
Is it reasonable/possible to expect that in this situation from this person?

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Have I agreed it is reasonable/possible to provide that support?
Have I agreed to ensure that support?

Have they committed to meeting my expectation?
Have they received the support we agreed on?

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Go Kings Go!

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An essential part of your role is to connect people to the larger organization in a way that creates helpful transparency, not anxiety.

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As a manager, one of your jobs is to provide a high-quality information conduit between the larger organization and your people or teams.

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"Refinement is a team-level activity that, when done well, makes planning sessions relaxed, useful, and productive."

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When we adopt tools and methods without thinking about and clarifying what we need them to do in our context, we almost guarantee that they will not work as we need them to.

But it’s way easier to blame meetings, metrics, and managers.

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The Three Bad “M”s are Meetings, Metrics, and Managers.

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[Paul Tevis @ptevis]

We “promote” brilliant engineers to managers but don’t support them in understanding their new job because “they’re smart, they’ll figure out.” Is it any surprise that they struggle? Who has ever told them what it means to be a manager in this company? In this department?

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