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Du möchtest agile Transformationen erfolgreich gestalten und nachhaltig im Unternehmen verankern? Dann bist du hier genau richtig! In der Agile Transformation Toolbox gibt Marc Löffler, erfahrener Agile Coach, Keynote-Speaker und Autor, praktische Tipps, um die Herausforderungen agiler Transformationen zu meistern. Der Podcast beleuchtet die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren: von der richtigen Auftragsklärung über psychologische Sicherheit bis hin zu maßgeschneiderten Ansätzen für Teams und Organisationen. Marc teilt nicht nur seine 20-jährige Erfahrung, sondern gibt dir auch Einblicke in bewährte Tools wie The Fridge Method, Kompetenzmodelle für Scrum Master, Product Owner und Entwickler sowie Methoden zur Analyse der Team- und Unternehmensreife. Perfekt für Agile Coaches, Scrum Master, Führungskräfte und alle, die Agilität in ihrem Unternehmen stärken wollen. Jede Woche erwarten dich praxisnahe Tipps, inspirierende Einblicke und konkrete Werkzeuge, um deine agile Reise voranzubringen. Abonniere jetzt und werde Teil der Agile Transformation Toolbox – denn die Zukunft ist agil!
Episodes

Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Ein philisophisches Gespräch mit Dr. Thomas Teichler
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Key Take-aways: 8. Episode – Thomas Teichler
Passionierte Teams haben eine größere Bandbreite von Verhaltensweisen
[…] ein leidenschaftliches Team hat eine größere Bandbreite von Verhaltensweisen. Also […] das Team ist dann eben nicht nur gut in seinen Aufgaben, sondern es ist gut und mit Leidenschaft dabei. Es ist besonders motiviert. Es ist emotional. Es kann die eigenen Gefühle fühlen, die Zusammenarbeit anzapfen.
Passionierte Teams haben ihre Gefühle zur Verfügung
Ich würde passionierte Teams nicht als hochemotionale Teams beschreiben, sondern es sind Teams, die Emotionen auch zur Verfügung haben und auch nutzen. Neben ihrer Disziplin, neben ihrem Fokus. [Das erkennt man] […] schon daran, dass Emotionalität und Körperlichkeit neben der Mentalität und der Vernunft auch zur gemeinsamen Arbeit gehören. Sein dürfen, und auch ganz natürlich sind und herangezogen werden […] im Umgang miteinander.
Passionierte Teams glauben an das, was sie tun
[…] passionate, da kommt ja Passion, die Leidensgeschichte kann man ja damit assoziieren, da ist ein Glaube auch mit verbunden. Ein Glaube an sich selbst, an das Produkt, an das was man macht und ein damit verbundener Einsatz. Also passionierte Teams glauben an das, was sie tun und sie sind… sie widmen sich dem voll und da ist auch eine große Würde drin.
Passionierte Teams brauchen leidenschaftliche Menschen
[…] Ich glaube aber vor allem braucht es leidenschaftliche Menschen. Also die, die Leidenschaftlichkeit kennen und sich das auch erlauben dort hinzugehen und dort auch in der Arbeit hinzugehen in diesem Punkt in sich selbst. Wo sie eben ihre ganze Persönlichkeit anzapfen und nicht nur ihr gutes Denken.
Passionierte Teams brauchen Führung von allen
Und ich würde sagen, […] Führung ist sehr wichtig, für ein passioniertes, leidenschaftliches Team, und ich meine damit aber die Führung von allen. Im Sinne, alle fühlen sich verantwortlich dafür, dass das, was das Team, die Abteilung, die Organisation erreichen soll, gelingt, und stellen ihre persönlichen Ambitionen da drunter.
Leidenschaft per se macht noch kein gutes Team aus
[…] Und wenn wir sagen, ja wir wollen leidenschaftlich miteinander arbeiten und leidenschaftlich für unsere Kunden oder für unsere Stakeholder arbeiten, dann würde ich darüber sprechen, was das denn heißt. […] Weil nur, wenn man… nur wenn die Leidenschaft ein Diener wird, dann kann man die Dinge besser meistern. Denn Leidenschaft per se, macht noch kein gutes Team aus, macht auch noch keinen Teamerfolg aus. Aber sie kann den Erfolg immens steigern, wenn die Leidenschaft wie ein Ross vor den Wagen gespannt wird und der Wagen in die richtige Richtung gelenkt wird.

Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Passionierte Teams mit Daniel Hommel
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
In dieser Folge sprechen wir mit Daniel Hommel. Seit Daniels achten Lebensjahr ist Softwareentwicklung sein Steckenpferd. Ab 2005 begann er die Praktiken des Extreme Programming (XP) immer ernsthafter anzuwenden und fing an, sich mit Software Craftmanship und Clean Code zu befassen. Nach über 10 Jahren als Entwickler wurde er 2011 in die Rolle des ScrumMasters gerufen. Heute brennt er als Agile Coach vor allem dafür, Veränderungsprozesse zu begleiten, um die versteckten Potenziale in Unternehmen zu heben.
Hier sind die Key Take-aways aus dem Podcast:
Key Take-aways:
Passion braucht Balance
[...] Ja, das hat für mich eher etwas mit so einer Balance zu tun. Also, ich glaube gerade, wenn man etwas Großes erreichen möchte, was ein bisschen länger dauert, muss man halt auch auf seine Energiereserven und auf andere Dinge, die einem/ So etwas wie eine Familie ist ja auch Support. Ja, unterstützt ja auch. Gibt auch Halt. Auf solche Dinge muss man dann umso mehr achten. Finde ich. Also, für mich bedeutet Passion nicht unbedingt blind links irgendwo rein zu rennen, bis ich komplett verbrannt bin. [...]
Ein gutes Team ist wie ein Piratenschiff
[...] Also so, man segelt gemeinsam singend auf unbekanntes Gewässer raus, um irgendwie einen Schatz zu heben oder zu finden oder zu klauen. Ja? Und legt sich dabei durchaus auch mal mit dem einen oder anderen Königreich an. Also so, das ist die andere Metapher. Dieses Piratenschiff, was mir da noch eingefallen ist. [...]
Passionierte Teams brauchen Feedback
[...] Ja. Ich denke, was daran spannend ist, wir hatten am Schluss so als Fazit, dass alle agilen Methoden irgendwie darauf ausgelegt sind, Feedbackloops herzustellen oder zu verkürzen. Im sozialen, technischen Bereich, im Businessbereich, überall eigentlich. Das bringt mich wieder zurück zu dem Thema Feedback. Also ich kann eigentlich nicht genug Feedback in meinem Team leben und irgendwie schauen, dass ich an so viel wie möglichen Stellen anbringe. [...]
Passionierte Teams brauchen passionierte Menschen
Jetzt kann man sich schon fragen, gerade als Coach: Ist das nicht der erste Schritt? Also, im agilen Manifest steht ja: Build teams arround motivated individuals. Ist der erste Schritt vielleicht auch den Leuten einen Weg aufzuzeigen, dass jeder individuell seiner Passion vielleicht nachgeben kann, um daraus dann passionierte Teams aufzubauen. Mal so eine grüne These in den Raum gestellt.
Links:
- Shower of appreciation (http://www.miarka.com/shower-of-appreciation-or-talking-behind-ones-back/)
- Link zur Havard Business Review (https://hbr.org/cover-story/2017/09/work-and-the-loneliness-epidemic)

Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
Interview with Chris Murman
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
[…] A passionate team feels safe that they can ... When those moments come out, they're not worried about offending anybody, or if they express an opinion that differs, people are just seeing your ideas as it's just you're passionate about it, and they don't take offense super easy to it. […]
[…] There's also a lot of diversity in passionate teams, because really if you have a team where everybody looks, and acts, and talks, and sounds kind of the same, you get into a rhythm, and passion doesn't like rhythm. […]
[…] Passion really needs to have its own drumbeat, and you get that from diverse ideas. […]
Too much passion may be dangerous
[…] Yeah, and it doesn't have to be a constant movement, right? You would just burn yourself out if you just woke up every day and said, "No, we need to just be going at a breakneck pace," right? "We need to put the pedal to the metal, as they say." You would just burn yourself out after a while. I mean, really, I think, in a way, you have to make room for passion to enter when it needs it, because maybe you don't always need it. Maybe you just need some heavy downtime. […]
A passionate team needs a fail-safe environment
[…] Not everybody's gonna be a great public speaker, but when the team is speaking to each other, they know how to hold a room. And when I say that I mean when they speak, they had everybody's attention. […]
[…] We're emotional creatures. How is it to be successful that I have to suppress a part of who I really, really am?
I feel that if you are a truly authentic, passionate team, right, your emotions will shine. They will just absolutely shine through and through. People will cry. People will laugh. They will hug each other. They'll make jokes. I think one of my favorite teams ever, I had a couple of people pull me in for discussions, and we cried together, and we hugged, and people were frustrated. Their family life was difficult at the time, and hopefully that came from a feeling of safety, right? They felt safe in that group. Going back to another trait, but if they are safe then their emotions will come through, and it will be okay for those emotions to come through. It's so important. […]
[…] I think that leadership can help. So I mentioned earlier that one of the agile principles is to create the right environment around motivated individuals, and I feel like leadership has to be a part of that. Now, the team has to use it, right? The team has to use the environment that they've been given once they get it, but there are so many companies where they don't have the ability to create their own environment. […]
[…] When you don't have a feeling of safety in organizations, and when the leadership, and the systems and the workflows have been set up in a way to not encourage people to speak up, eventually people just start saying anything. They just say, "Look, I'm just gonna go do my job. I'm not gonna really innovate. I'm not gonna care. If something goes wrong and my boss is making a decision I don't like, it doesn't matter because my boss isn't gonna appreciate my ideas anyways. So I'm just gonna shut up and I'm not gonna say anything." And that is a toxic, toxic environment. […]
[…] You wanna talk about a company of unpassionate people? It's when they don't feel like they can speak up. And so many companies struggle with that. I mean, just think of the number of companies you've worked with, and the times you've been in a meeting room, and someone should have spoken up but nobody did because they felt like they couldn't, you know what I mean? […]
A passionate team needs slack
[…] But I think the thing that you can do most is just, like you said, create some slack, because if your days are just hour after hour after hour, you're scheduled and you don't have times to just be in the moment and work, and huddle, and converse, that probably fosters passion better than anything else. By just giving us some slack. And saying like, "Hey, let's all go ... " Whether it's lunch, or bringing donuts and coffee in. As awful as donuts are for you, sometimes sugar can be really helpful in getting the motor started. […]
[…] Sometimes the best leadership that you can do is to just sit back. Create the best environment you can, sit back, let them have some slack, and just watch them go, and sometimes it may just happen regardless of whatever you do, you know what I mean? […]

Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Agiles Arbeiten bei der MaibornWolff GmbH - Ein Interview mit Silas Graffy
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
In dieser Folge sprechen wir mit Silas Graffy, Senior IT Architect bei der Maiborn Wolff GmbH. Er erzählt uns u.a. warum "Collective Code Ownership" in passionierten Softwareentwicklungsteams eine große Rolle spielt. Ausserdem sprechen wir über den Begriff "Führung" und wie wir ihn verstehen.
Wenn ihr derzeit unzufrieden mit Eurem Job seid, solltet ihr Euch unbedingt auf https://www.maibornwolff.de/karriere/offene-stellen umschauen. Maiborn Wolff sucht immer nach passionierten Mitarbeitern. Scheint 'ne tolle Firma zu sein.
Viel Spaß beim Reinhören.
Euer Marc

Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Passionierte Teams bei der Firma Agilent
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Thomas Krause, Dominik Ruf und Daniel Kühner von der Firma Agilent (http://agilent.com) über passionierte Teams. Sehr spannende Firma kann ich da nur sagen, aber hört selbst...

Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
What does it take to build passionate teams? - An interview with Vasco Duarte
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017
Key Take-Aways:
A passionate team can be recognized by the quality of the product or service they provide. They create something that creates value in the world, not just a product.
[...] I would say that you can't look for passion by looking at the team. When you look at the outcome of their work, at the quality of the product or services that the team produces, as seen by their customers, you will know if it's a passionate team. You will know it because passion exudes in the product, the outcome or the final deliverable that comes out of a passionate team. You will see it in the quality of the products that they produce, and just before we started recording, we were talking about two different kinds of microphone, right? The one that you are using right now, which sounds awesome. And another one, which is driven by what I would call a marketing focused American company who doesn't understand the use of their technology. […]
Well, it doesn't need to be easy to use, necessarily, it depends on what kind of product we are talking about. But in the case of a microphone that is used for recording in a, like for example the microphone that I'm using, it's used for recording anywhere. It's not used for recording in a studio, right? So you need to deal with all kinds of other sound problems. And you see that. People are actually thinking about how the product is going to be used, and they transfer that into the product itself. It doesn't need to be an easy to use product. It can be a very complex, I don't know, spectrometer, or whatever. It doesn't need to be something that is easy to use. But it clearly helps the people using it to solve a real problem that they have. And it does solve very often in ways that are very hard to replicate, because they required a lot of passion to develop that kind of a product. [...]
In most passionate teams, there is constructive conflict, where ideas are the focus, not the people.
[…]Well, actually, in my experience, the best teams I worked with, there's conflict. And sometimes, when you're an outsider, you might even think that they are fighting with each other, but they are not. What they are trying to do, the process they are going through, is this constructive conflict whereby ideas are the focus of their discussion, not the people. It's not about your idea vs. my idea. But it's about multiple ideas, and which one should we try, and how to we develop it, so in the end, out of those conflicts emerged other ideas that no one in that meeting or conversation ever thought about before, but they were developed and further improved with multiple perspectives, and together as a team, they created something new. So this constructive conflict is definitely one of the most important things that I would say you would see in a high-performing or a passionate team, if you will.[…]
Passionate teams work in an environment, where diversity can be expressed. When they argue, they learn, as they have to express their unstated assumptions.
[…]I would say that a team, if it's more than two people, and even in two people, that could happen, a team is a complex social system. And in my experience, you can't remove diversity from a social system. What you can do is that you can quench it, you can stop it from emerging. And this is very much done, I'm thinking about Germany, the country we both lived in, you still live there. Where the opinion of the boss is always the one that matters. And that's one way to constrain a social system, in order to create order, there's a reason for it, but that does not remove the diversity in those teams, it just stops it from being expressed. And I would say that in passionate teams, there is an environment where diversity can be expressed, where it's okay to disagree, and actually in fact we look for opportunities for disagreement, not to fight, although it might look like fighting from the outside, but rather to learn. And when we get into a discussion and we start arguing even, when we put arguments, then we learn, because we have to express unstated assumptions that we had. And we have to listen to other assumptions that may be different than ours. That's my hypothesis, at least, that you can't remove diversity from a complex system. You just need to find ways to let it emerge.[…]
Passionate teams don’t accept external constraints. They embrace them and then they change them. They own the way they are working.
[…]And actually, there's one perhaps another characteristics of a passionate team, is that they don't accept external constraints, they embrace, but then they change external constraints. Like for example, in this particular team that I was working with, we introduced Scrum. And in Scrum, there's this thing that, you know, you do the sprint planning in the beginning, and then you do the planning poker and so on. And this team just stopped estimating. They took in the Scrum constraint of doing the planning and the estimation and so on, and then at some point they decided, hey, this is not useful for us anymore, we'll stop it. Another thing that they did is that they had the Jira board, where they had all of the stories that they were working on, and at some point they said, this is not useful for us, we should use a physical board. They were collocated, so that was easy for them, and they started using a physical board. And then later on, we changed rooms, we went to another room in another part of the building, and they designed the room themselves. And the room, if you entered that room, you would say, "These guys are crazy." It looked totally different from a normal room in that company. […]
The leader of a passionate team is constantly working on creating the environment that allows the team to express their creativity and their ingenuity every day.
[…]We have these amazing examples of companies that delegate the decision about making the customer happy to the lowest level of the organization, like Nordstrom, the department store, there's a whole book about it, I think it's called, "Radical Management" by Steve Denning, where he talks about putting the client first or the customer first in everything we do. And the way to do that is to actually delegate the decision making to the fringes of the organization, because those are the people who are actually in touch with the "reality" of what it is to work with clients, to be in front of clients every day when they are at work. So, for me the role of the leader is someone who enables the people who do the real work, who solve the real problems in product development, who develop the real product, to be able to make decisions.
Now, what does that mean? In very practical terms, it means that the product owner is not a person outside the team. I shudder to think and to hear when people in Scrum say that the product owner is not a team member. That is the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard in my career. Of course the product owner is part of the team. Otherwise, the team has no ownership over the product. By definition. If you put the product owner outside the team, the team is just a bunch of lackeys, servants to the product owner. That makes absolutely no sense. The team is the most creative, intelligent group to develop the product. So I would say that leaders need to create the environment, for example making the product owners part of the team, getting the developers to actually talk to and interact with customers, real customers. That kind of actions, that's there for the leader. The leader in a passionate team is constantly working on creating the environment that allows the team to express their creativity and their ingenuity every day.[…]
Passionate teams do not fall from the sky. They are not an accident, they are not created by magic tools either. They are created by constant, daily endeavor, effort and reflection.
[…]Well, so, first of all, I think that you should all read the blog post that Marc published on the passion model, and hopefully at some point even the book. But that's not enough. What I would say is that once you understand the model and once you understand those characteristics that Marc describes, then it's time to go back to basics. Passionate teams are created on the day to day practice of creating amazing, hyper-performing, really passionate teams. Passionate teams do not fall from the sky. They are not an accident, they are not created by magic tools either. They are created by constant, daily endeavor, effort, reflection, just like the Agile manifesto says.[…]
Additional Material:
Books:
- Radical Management
- Five Dysfunctions Of A Team
Links:
- PASSION Model: http://marcloeffler.eu/2016/09/07/seven-elements-of-highly-passionate-teams/?lang=en
- The 5 Dynsfunctions of a Team: https://www.tablegroup.com/books/dysfunctions
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Podcast: http://scrum-master-toolbox.org/

Tuesday Sep 19, 2017
Moderner Führung mit dem 4-P Modell mit Christoph Hüls
Tuesday Sep 19, 2017
Tuesday Sep 19, 2017
Willkommen zur ersten Folge des Podcasts "Passionate Teams". Wir sprechen in dieser Folge mit Christoph Hüls, Head of Merck Group Innovation Strategy. In dieser Folge teilt er mit uns seine Definition passionierter Teams und sein 4-P-Modell, welches er verwendet, um die optimalen Voraussetzungen für passionierte Teams zu schaffen. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören.
Bio:
Christoph Hüls (Gast) ist Innovations Evangelist, Entrepreneur und Menschenfreund. Bevor er Chief Innovation Officer bei Merck KGaA, Darmstadt wurde, war er in verschiedenen Positionen in F&E, Projektmanagement, Portfoliomanagement, Business Development, Corporate Venturing bei der Hoechst AG, Novartis SA und Merck Serono. Sehr prägend für seine berufliche Laufbahn war die Zeit als CEO eines letztlich erfolgreichen Start-Ups in den Zeiten der Finanzkrise nach 2001. Christoph ist davon überzeugt, dass Menschen den Unterschied für Erfolg machen.
Marc Löffler (Gastgeber) ist Autor, Keynote Speaker und Agile Coach. Bevor er mit agilen Methoden in Berührung kam, hat er als traditioneller Projektmanager bei Firmen wie die Volkswagen AG oder die Siemens AG gearbeitet. Seine Leidenschaft ist es, Unternehmen dabei zu helfen das agile Wertesystem auf ihre Organisation zu übertragen. Er liebt es neue Einsichten zu generieren indem er Teams dabei unterstützt, Probleme aus einem anderen Blickwinkel zu betrachten. Im Jahr 2014 erschien sein Buch "Retrospektiven in der Praxis" beim dpunkt.verlag.
