Episode B2.008 Power of the Huddle

1/9/2020

RESULTS RADIO..."Let's Grow Together"

Introduction
Hope everyone is looking forward to a great week. We have a few announcements to make about growth of the IBGR Network.

First, we are doubling the number of new and returning visitors to the site. July was twice June’s numbers and we beat July’s numbers over the weekend.

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Third, we have declared war on Covid19. That is not on the disease itself, just a worse variant of the flu. Our declaration is aimed at those politicians and bureaucrats that are making arbitrary, non-science based decisions on economic activity. People with no skin in the game, collecting checks from our taxes are deciding which business lives or dies. If you do your own research, a stark reality will become apparent - what is happening in your country is not based on science - it is based on power and control.

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Show Objectives
Today’s show is really about defining the difference between a meeting and a huddle. Most business cultures have been conditioned to hold long, drawn out meetings complete with coffee and donuts. Even during COVID 19, with Zoom meetings replacing in person meetings, the focus can be lost and they can drag on.

We have been talking about bringing Agile principles to your workplace for the last several months. Now let’s take a look at how to effectively manage projects and people using the Power of the Huddle.

Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

alignment - ensure behavior/performance is aligned toward a common goal,
calibrate ongoing behavior to ensure integration is taking place between group members and maximize the use of resources,
improve through post-job reviews to upgrade performance and teamwork,
recognize performance in group setting

What You Need to Know
EPISODE B6.007 AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - PART 4 DAILY MEETINGS (HUDDLES) & REVIEWS

Align (at the start): ensures all energy is directed at a single vector, the same direction to gain a multiplier effect from collective work;
Calibrate (during work in progress): ensures each members understands the status of accomplishments from the other members to ensure interrelated work is complete in the timebox as specified;
Improve (at the end): ensure the lessons learned are applied to the next sprint or project.

What You Need to Do

Identify projects that would benefit from regular team huddles to increase the speed of the project completion and expansion of information among key players.
Instill a new Meeting Culture and Cadence within your organization- a physical stand-up for 15 minutes every 24 work hours.
Assign a Huddle Leader and ensure proper training. The Huddle Leader is Key - everybody on the same page with the same sense or urgency.
Inform team members that you will want answers to the following questions during the huddle:
1. "what did you accomplish yesterday (and is it posted)?"
2. "what are you going to accomplish today?"
3. "what are you going to accomplish tomorrow?"
4. identification of obstacles to be removed
Sprints are flexible, project steps are not - call the right play that day.
Create a space for visual displays of each project. Everything is posted - manage visually
Schedule Weekly Roll-Up Meetings to take the longer view. Changes made at the daily huddles are minor course corrections, the Roll-Up focuses on the accumulated deviations on the overall project.