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Self Organizing Teams
…how to make them work Henrik Berglund Cedur AB @henrikber
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Bio
What is a successful team? 1 min
Goal of teamwork Serve customers well Grow as team
Individual learning and well being Source: Hackman, ”Leading Teams”
Current situation?
Happiness at work survey at ACE! conf
Source: Bob Marshal - Alienation (ACE! Keynote), http://vimeo.com/44324272 34 min in
Happiness at work survey at ACE! conf
Source: Bob Marshal - Alienation (ACE! Keynote), http://vimeo.com/44324272 34 min in
Conditions
Choose team to join: join:
Unclear purpose/goal, but a strict process that you have to follow
B
Clear purpose/goal, but no predefined process to follow to get there
#1 Clear authority to manage own work process
#2 Compelling direction
What type of direction inspire greatness? You will have to brief people on this....
Clear vs incomplete
stories , analogies, …
Consequential
Challenging
50%
Are people ever… ever… assigned to a project/task
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Project based organization… organization…
A
Project a1
Project a2
Product
B
Product
10%, 25%, 50%, ….
Persons (previously known as ”resources”) Project b1
Project b2
Problem 1: Who is on my team???
Strawberries Blueberries
Lingonberries
Case study
#3 Clear Boundaries
Problem 2: Moving people around
Source: Katzenbach and Smith
#4 Stability over some time
Case study: study: QA dep We’re done!
Cool devs
18 months…
Not really…
Tester
#5 Trustworthy feedback on results
I’m a proud expert I don’t want to be a mediocre generalist
#6 Interdependence
#1
Clear authority to manage own work process
#2
Compelling direction
#3
Clear boundaries
#4
Stability over some time
#5
Trustworthy feedback on results
#6
Interdependence
#7
Effort is put into team building
Teambuilding days, some extracts
Week before
Conversations for building a team… goals motivation what do we each bring how to work together
Adapted from C. Avery’s 5 conversations
Preparations WORK HISTORY +/TEAMS + YOU?
Mechanics
Pomodoro’s
25 min work 5 min rest
Ideas Warm Ups
Check in
What is success? success?
Goals
Product
Organiz. Organiz.
Journeylines
Intro
Make poster
Responsi bility Process
Role of conflict,, conflict Trust, Tuckman
What determine s success? success?
Show + feedback
Properties good teams Individual goals
Team + interpersonal skills
Think about two situations
Call on behaviour How to work together
Times
Process
Done
arcitectur e
Doing
Done
#1 #2
Clear authority to manage own work process Compelling direction
#3
Clear boundaries
#5
Trustworthy feedback on results
#7
Effort is put into team building
#4 Stability over some time #6
Interdependence
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“…accounts for about 90% of the variation in how well a team eventually performs” – R Hackman http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/six_common_misperceptions_abou.html
I offer free lifetime support on this presentation! Henrik Berglund
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Agile Coach, Cedur AB
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