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Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind

Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind. Embrace Inexperience Arlo Belshee. The Project. 1000 C++ classes -30 to 180 Days ‘Till Broke 2 to 5 year sales cycle 3 to 11 member team Experimentation driven process. Why Be Promiscuous?. “It’s the people, Stupid!”

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Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind

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  1. Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind Embrace Inexperience Arlo Belshee

  2. The Project • 1000 C++ classes • -30 to 180 Days ‘Till Broke • 2 to 5 year sales cycle • 3 to 11 member team • Experimentation driven process

  3. Why Be Promiscuous? • “It’s the people, Stupid!” • Beginner’s Mind: high velocity without Flow • Use your talents • Maximize pair-net: transfer information faster • Build stronger teams

  4. Promiscuous Pairing • Practices: • Pair Churn • Team Tasks • Least-qualified Implementer • Theory: • Beginner’s Mind • Competencies vs. skills • Team Accountability and Responsibility

  5. Pair Churn: Beginner’s Mind • Highly productive • The human mind’s optimal learning state • Thrives on change • High energy, high attention, highly associative • Uncomfortable

  6. Pair Churn: Useful Miscommunications • Creativity!

  7. Pair Churn: Apply Your Talents • Rotate pairs to meet task needs • Apply multiple combinations of people to each problem • No hard problems

  8. Pair Churn: Technique Telepathy • Extreme pair net

  9. Team-owned Tasks: Team Accountability • Critical requirement for growing high-performance teams • Managers and Coaches find team accountability scary • The process helps

  10. Team-owned Tasks: Teambuilding • Interdependence • Defined but flexible communications • Trust building

  11. Least-qualified Implementer: Reinforcement • Beginner’s mind • Creativity

  12. Least-qualified Implementer: Naturals, Not Domain Experts • Domain Expert: a specialist in a skill • Natural: one who possesses a competency • “Qualified” typically defined by skills • Skills are quickly learned • Competencies are more important, but only visible when all have the skills

  13. Least-qualified Implementer: Continuous Learning • Of course! • Very short new-hire ramp up time • Combats Not Invented Here Syndrome • Allows full utilization of tools

  14. Questions?

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