The talk presents challenges in orchestrating a development team with complementary skills and competencies - all of which very relevant and required for the project at hand. However, according to the team assessment instrument presented in [1], a multidisciplinary team with the seemingly perfect and required diversity in competences, is not guaranteed a high score. 1) Moe, Dingsøyr, Røyrvik, “Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – A Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development”, in Abrahamsson, Marchesi & Maurer (Eds.): “XP 2009”, LNBIP 31, 2009

This is a story about one major project and the people contributing to it. The means of adoption, the high amount of communication and the feelings involved in adoption will be presented. The main offering of this talk are the experiences, instructions and small hints. These will help you on your own journey.

The secret to high performing XP teams is unfettered communication. And where there is communication, there’s bound to be conflict. Be it meetings or discussions around the table, when views collide we all notice conflict. This said why do some groups deal with conflict better? How can facilitators and team members ensure constructive dialogue in the face of conflicting perspectives?

Often I say that my job is about helping people who would rather talk to computers, talk to each other. Yet this isn’t all—I’ve played developer, manager, coach, analyst, and product owner roles—and I’ve learned that it’s important that I speak my audience’s language to be sure we understand each other. In this workshop we’ll practice verbal and non-verbal techniques for bridging the communication gap. Considering how often even spouses often misunderstand one another, speaking like a native is a skill set anyone can benefit from.