Tere Given
Mastering the art of simplicity
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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Tere Given is an Agile Coach who has dedicated her career to connecting teams and leaders who solve business challenges with the help of technology. She believes at the center of Agile is a humane approach to work, fostering creative problem-solving and empowering teams to do great things.
Tere considers knowledge a core personal value and is committed to growing and sharing her knowledge. During her 13 year agility journey, she earned Scrum.org’s PSM III and PSPO III certifications and used that knowledge to contribute to Agile Alliance’s Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching. She enjoys speaking, teaching, and sharing her experience on a range of coaching topics. This year, Tere has been named a 2024 Women in Agile mentor.
She is pursuing her MBA in Organizational and Project Management from Eastern University and holds a BS in Business Management. Outside of work and school, Tere enjoys attending sporting events for her two children and travelling with her family.
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Team Driven Experimentation during your Retrospective
One of the best ways to help your Scrum team improve is during the Retrospective event. Unfortunately, this event is often an afterthought with low to no participation or rarely produces meaningful change. Structuring improvement efforts into experiments can help overcome these problems.
Join us we walk through how to identify areas of improvement (Sooner), structure the experiment (Safer), and track the outcomes (Better). Together we'll create a sample experimentation canvas; including evaluation metrics and setting the experiment duration.
Additionally, we will discuss how you can use this as a strategy to promote an experimentation culture and answer "How is your team getting better?" We will share with you several tools we use to coach Scrum Masters, teams, and leaders to more meaningful practices.
Learning Objectives
1. Uncover the opportunities (Liberating Structures, value stream analysis, data and metrics)
2. Work together to identify the kaizen action
3. Create hypothesis driven experiments to impact effectiveness
4. Plot your experiments with a Celebration Grid to promote psychological safety
5. Break your learning silo and tell the story of the team's effectiveness journey
The Courage of Leading with Yes
It is well documented that women are less likely to pursue new opportunities they qualify for, compared to men. What amazing things could we do if we said “yes” to ourselves more?
As 2023 began, I struggled to select a goal. I had just wrapped up a big professional milestone and suddenly felt aimless, unable to focus on what should come next. I dismissed opportunity after opportunity; often saying something like “I’d love to be part of that, but I don’t think they’ll allow me.” That process helped me to realize I should "Lead with Yes".
In 2023, I challenged myself to self-reject less often. My goal was to shift the decision about "was I worthy" back in the hands of the opportunity decision makers. After all, when I assume that I didn't belong – I robbed others of the ability to decide if I really was right for the opportunity.
Join me as I retell my 2023 experiences, the highs and lows from Disney to Indy, I’ll recount the many ways I was surprised, and humorously look at quite a few lessons learned.
Middle Managers in a Big A, Big T Transformation: Stuck between a Mandate and a Mob
Congratulations middle managers! You're about to, or already are, undergoing an Agile Transformation (big A, big T)! Is your senior leadership filled with endless excitement and optimism? Are your teams sharing their consternation and confusion? Doesn’t feel fun being stuck between a mandate and a mob… We’re here to help!
Join us as we explore your purpose in this ecosystem. What defines you as a great manager and a better leader? How does that show up for your teams?
Together we will look at:
• What change looks like for you, the manager
• Your invaluable contribution and its impact on curiosity, motivation, and effectiveness
• Some things to consider as you complete performance management activities
• What resources (tools and relationships) are available to help you
Tere Given
Mastering the art of simplicity
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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