BE A GOOD TEAM PLAYER FIRST!!!!

1. When you step into a meeting or a ceremony, remember to detach yourself from your role/titles and act as a team player who is seeking knowledge and willing to ask questions that motivate others in critical thinking and generate a systems thinker mindset.
2. Sprint ceremonies, especially grooming or planning are not voting sessions where you are joining here only to give your vote for stories. You should understand why a story is important and how does it help our previous features. Most importantly what is the “value” we get by doing this. Strive for simplicity and do not complicate. Your best assessment is if we are struggling to add new features on our system, you are not trying to refresh and ask for first simplifying things in our system.
3. You should love to spend more time grooming and understanding things. Don’t jump to conclusions.
4. Do create mental models in your brain of what a feature looks like from a user standpoint and think about the short term and long term consequences.
5. Always map your thoughts to the big picture. For example, you should think of building a feature as a standalone component that can be integrated into any system/domain too.
6. Cultivate characteristics of a Systems Thinker in yourself and others around you. (See the whole picture, identify complexities, great listening ….. etc)
7. You are not competing with others. You are competing with yourself. And to elaborate, you are asking all the questions you have in your mind to seek an understanding.
8. Conversations should encourage others to get involved into active collaboration. If the discussions become one sided, we are not leaving our ego(s) at the door!
9. Every question you ask should build proactive participation from the rest of the team. Your Team members should be feeling happy to see you talk as they know that you ask everyone for their opinions and they feel privileged no matter how big or small everyone’s title is.
10. Your team is your first place of knowledge sharing. If you are sharing knowledge and thoughts to others and if your specific team doesn’t know about it, trust will not exist.
11. Each of us have to become source of positive energies in any meeting or conversation we are in. Your Team members should be delighted to have you around and want to collaborate more.

Hope these help.