Coaching an inspiration from team sports
Presentation at EuroSP3 2004
Bjarne Månsson,
KK Data Danmark
Bjarne Månsson, EuroSP3 2004
Coaching
- background
• EuroStar 2003 partly focused on the lack of cooperation between
development and testing
• 30 years’ experience in electronics and software development
• hereof 12 years’ experience in software process improvement
• and 7 years’ experience in software testing
• The basics of team sport is to be a team
• 40 years’ handball experience as team player, coach and referee
• 7 years’ basketball experience as coach and referee
• Why is it so popular to run around after a piece of leather?
• I still do not know!
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Coaching
- the team goal
• We are the champions …
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Coaching
- the scenario
citius, altius, fortius
- Coubertin
faster, higher, stronger
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Coaching
- the scenario
citius, altius, fortius
- Coubertin
faster, higher, stronger
time to market, best product, market share
- Best business
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Coaching
- the task of making the best team
• Understand “the mental key”
mental attitude
technique
experience
- John Whitmore “Coaching for performance”
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Coaching
- the task
• Watch this game … Vranjes
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Coaching
- the task
• Watch this game …
• What happened?
• Watch again …
• still the speed and combinations are tremendous
• and it shall work within a split second
Team work for champions!
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Coaching
- the champion team
mentally prepared
Coaching
technically trained
tactically trained
team built
Being prepared for the game
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Coaching
- the team size
• Choose the right team size
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Soccer: 11 players
Handball: 7 players
Volleyball: 6 players
Basketball: 5 players
• Choir: 4 x 10 singers
• Army group: 10 soldiers
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Coaching
- the team player
• Multiple roles
Attack
Defense
Goal keeper
Wing player
Wing player
Line player
Center back
Goal shooter
Back
Play maker
Center back
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Coaching
- the team player
• Knowing your role
• Develop your strong sides
• Work with your weak sides
• Use established methods to work with yourself:
• Example: the Myers Briggs Type Indicator – the
MTBI
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Extraversion (E) / Introversion (I)
Sensing (S) / Intuition (N)
Thinking (T) / Feeling (F)
Judging (J) / Perceptive (P)
• Don’t be shy … promote yourself on your strong
sides
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Coaching
- my own story about the team player
• Knowing your role
• At an age of 14, I was put on the left wing
• This was the place where you did the least harm!
• I wanted to be a STAR goal shooter. But my weak
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side was my lack of weight.
Then I looked at myself to see if I had any other
potentials for this game.
One of those days cartoon figures – Speedy
Gonzales – showed me a way (he is small but very
fast and he helps others):
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Coaching
- my own story about the team player (2)
• Knowing your role
• My force could be running ahead of those big
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bully guys
And I had the proper size to slip below the
arms of the giants:
• And nowadays, playing the wing has
developed into being an important discipline in
the game
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Coaching
- and it is the same old story
• In local basketball
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Coaching
- and it is the same old story
• In international basketball
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Coaching
- odd jobs
• Consider the goal keeper … you stand there,
mostly collecting the ball from the net, often with a
chance of getting the ball right in your face
• So how do you motivate this important job?
• Again – locate the individual skills of the person
• Evaluate specialised training programs
• Integrate the odd job in the team work
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Coaching
- how to coach
• Only one way to start
• You have tried to be a team player
• You understand the technique, the tactics and the game
educational approach
teach the technique
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practice, practice, practice
Coaching
- how to coach
• Teach the technique
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Physical fitness
Shooting techniques
Tactical team understanding
Running into position (“to run without the ball”)
Practice, practice, practice - “Play it again, Sam”
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Coaching
- how to coach
• Educational approach
• Most of the best Danish handball coaches are
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originally school teachers!
Coaching style:
• Hieratical (Russian Trefilov, American Brown)
• Democratic (Swedish Johansson)
• Choose your style to the mentality of the team
players
• All three teams have been world champions
• Practice, practice, practice - “Play it again, Sam”
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Coaching
- for the game
• And now the game …
It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.
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Coaching
- game readiness
• Puerto Rico stuns Dream Team, 92-73
• “I'm humiliated, not for the loss - but I'm
disappointed because I had a job to do
as a coach, to get us to understand how
we're supposed to play as a team and
act as a team, and I don't think we did
that,” Larry Brown said.
• “It's good for kids to see how the game
is supposed to be played.“ Iverson said.
• “Next game, we will have to play as a
team," Iverson concluded.
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Coaching
- the game
• Readiness: Be prepared for the game
• Have your tactics ready (and practiced)
• Study your opponents
• Have your players ready for the game
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Coaching
- the game
• Changeability: Moving targets
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Have your plan B ready (and plan C)
Change your tactics when needed
Use all the abilities of the players
Insert substitutes when needed
Appoint a captain in the field
Adapt, adjust …. use time out
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Coaching
- the game
• Team spirit: The game is a fight
• “To have team spirit means that the players
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must have charisma, fight for the team, support
each other, must not yell at each other and
always have the same aim.” (Bengt
Johansson)
Encourage the players
Engage yourself
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Coaching
- game reference to business
• Readiness: Be prepared for the game -> market knowledge
• Have your tactics ready (and practiced) -> development guidelines
• Study your opponents -> competition research
• Have your players ready for the game -> education plan
• Changeability: Moving targets -> market changes
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Have your plan B ready (and plan C) -> project risk analysis
Change your tactics if needed -> iterative development
Use all the abilities of the players -> resource planning
Insert substitutes when needed -> resource backup, XP, pair testing
Adapt, adjust …. use time out -> iterative development
• Team spirit: The game is a fight -> market competition
• Encourage the players -> team building, team events, kick off event
• Engage yourself -> management visibility
All about the process!
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Coaching
- the reward
• Building the best team
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Coaching
- the game
The process wins the game
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Coaching
- the referee
• Being the referee
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You have to be neutral - the “ombudsman”
You have to stand firm in decision
You have to admit mistakes
You have to be in contact with the players - small
talking
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Coaching
- the referee
• The paradox
• As a team player, you go as far as the referee allows
• But the team player demands the referee to see all the
tricks of the opponent players
• The coach shall teach the players fair play
• The business referee is the market
• But you do not get the verdict at once
• And the rules are not obvious
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KK Data Danmark
- the company
• Founded 1994 by Klaus Karkov
• Sub-supplier of embedded software solutions for instruments and industrial
applications
• Consultancy on software testing, project management and software
process improvement
• Applications and consultancy include
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bus ticket system (CTS)
audio codecs (Scientific-Atlanta)
hearing aids (Oticon)
flight maintenance equipment (Terma)
mobile telephones (Nokia)
medical devices (Novo Nordisk)
• Supplier of the RDS532 RDS Encoder
• See more at www.kkdata.dk
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KK Data Danmark
- Bjarne Månsson
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M.Sc. (EE) from Denmark’s Technical University
M.Phil. (EE) from University of Leeds, UK
Internal Auditor (Bywater plc)
Certified Software Tester (ISEB)
30 years’ experience in electronics and software development
hereof 12 years’ experience in software process improvement
and 7 years’ experience in software testing
Fields of work
• Telecommunications, data acquisition (production, laboratory), CNC machines,
medical devices, CRM software
• 40 years’ handball experience as team player, coach and referee
• 7 years’ basketball experience as coach and referee
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