Scrum Teams are Self-Organizing. Get over it. - …Slides/...•Scrum teams are self-organizing...

David Sabine - PST

2019-09

SCRUM TEAMS ARE SELF-ORGANIZING.GET OVER IT.

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UTOPIAN TEAM

Diversity of Views & Unity of Action

Teams are Self-Organizing

I assert that this is objectively true.

What do I mean by “true”?There are many ways to make truth claims.

Tautological• “Self-organizing teams choose

how best to accomplish their work.”• Similar to: “Pilots navigate their

planes.”• Similar to: “The sky is blue.”

True in every possible interpretation.

Not my argument!

Dictum• Scrum teams are self-organizing

becauseThe Scrum Guide™ says so.• Agile teams are self-organizing

because the Agile Manifesto says it’s best.

A formal pronouncement from an authoritative source.

A statement of principle.

Not my argument!

Axiomatic• People have choice.

A premise or starting point for reasoning.

This is my argument!

People have choice.

Subject only to these constraints:

• People cannot choose options not in their experience/consciousness.

• Think of a city. A city name.• Discard that city name.• Think of a different city.• Stop.

Your choices were limited…

People have choice.

Subject only to these constraints:

• People cannot choose options not in their experience/consciousness.• People earn, not choose,

an invitation to a team.

Choice BehavioursWhat does choice look like?

ExampleNavigation.

ExampleSelf-destruction.

ExampleCommitment.

The Law of Two Feet

• Every individual has two feet and must be prepared to use them. Responsibility for a successful outcome resides with exactly one person – the team member. Individuals can make a difference and must make a difference. If that is not true in a given situation, they, and they alone, must take responsibility to use their two feet, and move to a new place where they can make a difference. This departure need not be made in anger or hostility, but only after honouring the people involved and the space they occupy. By word or gesture, indicate that you have nothing further to contribute, wish them well, and go and do something useful.

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The Law of Two Feet

• Every individual has two feet and must be prepared to use them.Responsibility for a successful outcome resides with exactly one person – the team member. Individuals can make a difference and must make a difference. If that is not true in a given situation, they, and they alone, must take responsibility to use their two feet, and move to a new place where they can make a difference. This departure need not be made in anger or hostility, but only after honouring the people involved and the space they occupy. By word or gesture, indicate that you have nothing further to contribute, wish them well, and go and do something useful.

The Law of Two Feet

• Every individual has two feet and must be prepared to use them.Responsibility for a successful outcome resides with exactly one person – the team member. Individuals can make a difference and must make a difference. If that is not true in a given situation, they, and they alone, must take responsibility to use their two feet, and move to a new place where they can make a difference. This departure need not be made in anger or hostility, but only after honouring the people involved and the space they occupy. By word or gesture, indicate that you have nothing further to contribute, wish them well, and go and do something useful.

The Law of Two Feet

The Law of Real Workplaces

• Every employee has two feet and must be prepared to use them. Responsibility for a successful outcome resides with employees – individually and collectively. Individuals can make a difference and must make a difference. If they cannot in a given situation, they use their two feet and move to where they can make a difference. To the extent the workplace can foster honourable relationships and interactions, their departure need not be made in anger or hostility, and employees can navigate to situations in which they can do something useful.

-- David Sabine

Agile Leadership“To the extent the workplace can foster honourable relationships and interactions…” employees can self-organize their way into circumstances where each individual and the company can thrive.

But…Please start submitting your questions.

In light of the fact teams are self-organizing, and given their diversity of views, how then can a team achieve unity of action?

What is the Opposite of Self-Organizing?Conceptually? Actually?

Who assigns the work?Conceptually? Actually?

Are ALL Agile teams self-organizing?

“But that will never work here…”Self-organization is already at work here.

In desirable ways: team members stepping up to help each other.In costly ways: team members not abiding team agreements.

“People can’t just leave their job…”

Maybe…

Myth• …this is true only in regions

where unemployment rates are low?

Facts• Low unemployment rates

certainly improve employee mobility.• So, we observe higher attrition in

those environments.• High unemployment rates can

have the perceived effect of limiting an employees options.• But, the Law of Two Feet is

available to the employee, whether or not they choose to exercise it.

“Our company has strict hierarchies…how can teams self-organize?”

Maybe…

Myth• …this is true only in companies without

strict hierarchies?

Fact• Hierarchies of competency exist

naturally.• Hierarchies of authority are social

constructions. (I think this is what’s meant in the question.)• We sometimes observe that a team will

relinquish their choices to an authority –they do this by intermittently or selectively muting their self-organizing nature.If this condition persists long enough, we are led to believe an illusion that self-organization is not present.

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