Team Dynamics & Collaboration
Team effectiveness grows from shared ownership, trust, and collaboration. These parables explore the social and emotional aspects of working in a team.
| Concept | Agile Relevance | Usage in Agile |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken & Pig | Stakeholder vs. team roles. | Explain roles and commitments in Scrum. |
| The Old Man and His Sons | Team unity and strength through collaboration. | Emphasize collective resilience and the power of working as one. |
| The Lion & The Mouse | Psychological safety, humility, and inclusive contribution. | Reinforce team trust and the importance of empowering every voice. |
| The Four Oxen & The Lion | Cross-team alignment and system-level resilience. | Highlight the risks of siloed delivery and the need for coordinated, purpose-driven collaboration across teams. |
| Stone Soup | Collective contribution and co-creation. | Foster collaboration across silos and teams. |
| The Farmer & The Two Buckets | Psychological safety and hidden value in imperfection. | Reveal hidden value in imperfections and encourage teams to leverage diverse strengths. |
| The Fox & The Grapes | Cognitive dissonance, rationalization, self-sabotage. | Address limiting beliefs that block improvement and growth after failure. |
| Painter With a Broken Brush | Creativity through constraint and mutual support. | Encourage adaptive thinking and team collaboration under imperfect conditions. |
| The Scrum Master's Puzzle | Role clarity and hidden constraints. | Help new Scrum Masters understand their leverage points. |
| The Team of Rowers | Alignment, role clarity, and coordinated execution. | Help teams and leaders focus less on effort and more on rowing in the same direction. |
| The Team in The Maze | Navigating complexity together. | Illustrate the value of collective problem-solving. |
| Two Teams & a Mountain | Perspective and shared understanding. | Highlight value of cross-functional alignment. |
