Our vision is for our teams to be motivated, engaged and energetic.

Product Owner: Dermot

Scrum Master: Bernie

Team members: Bernie Maia, Catherine Hyams, Dermot Ryan, Diana Galarza, Giovanna Rojas, Mihall Curraolin, Raffaele Sacco and Tim Culovic.

Four Pillars – based on self-determination theory

Self-determination theory is a theory of motivation. It is concerned with supporting our natural or intrinsic tendencies to behave in effective and healthy ways.

Purpose

Autonomy

Relatedness

Competence

Outcome – Engagement Canvas

Engagement_Canvasv.1

Sprint 1 Goal: Create a toolkit to identify demotivated individuals in a team across each of the four pillars.

Competence

Not having the skills required for the job

Delivering late
Multiple issues
Creating technical debt (bugs)
No access to training/personal development
Lack of knowledge sharing culture.

Relatedness

Individuals not Engaged

Not speaking up/contributing
Don’t want to attend team “culture events”
Making excuse already delivery
Complaining
Individuals often on devices (laptop/phones) during ceremonies

Observer if roles x-functional teams are filled

Scrum Master
Product Owner
Other skills needed to deliver value

Making each other feeling competent

Don’t respect each other
Name and Shame
Foster superstars
“My job” your “job attitude”.

Purpose

Unclear product vision

No Ideation
Possible goals
The work given is not challenging
Team did not agree on goals
not delivering value
Don’t understand user stories

Lack of continuous improvement

No root cause analysis
No action items
No actions on retros

No Personal Alignment with team/org purpose

No career plan

Autonomy

An over-reliant, non-bold team

Not allowance for initiative
not raising one’s voice, always doing what other people say
no initiative

Demotivating organisational culture

Micromanagement
Hierarchical decision making (acceptance gates)
Rigid internal processes

Not feeling valued/ listed to

Being left out of important decisions/meetings
Being shut down when contributing

Our Journey:

The Thundercats’s vision:
First we were set to identify demotivated individuals, by using the 4 pillars of self-determination theory we got to:
- Relatedness:
- Autonomy:
- Competence:
- Purpose/Goal:
We went deeper into some of the previous bullets:
- Relatedness – Making each other feel unimportant
- Competence – Unclear product vision
- Engagement Approach Framework:
- Parking Lot: Some Ideas to think about …
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