From the Era of Stagnation to the Renaissance

The Recent History of Management.

Alexey Krivitsky@alexeykri

krivitsky@scrumguides.com

What is the place of managers in an agile organization?

What is great management?

Why?

How do companies evolve?

What do they typically do?

When do managers appear?

Good ol’ days…

Good ol’ days…

Generally speaking…

A DREAMER

ALSO A DREAMER

A DREAM TEAMself-directed and

empowered

TEAM,WE NEED TO

SCALE

TEAM,WE NEED TO

SCALE

MORE!

AND MORE!

I CAN’T MANAGE

THAT

AND SOME MORE! I CAN’T

MANAGE THIS

HEY, WE NEED MANAGERS!

S.P.O.C.K.

SpeciallyPlacedOrganizationControlKeeper

MANAGERS are

from MARS

DEVELOPERSare from

VENUS

Root-causes vs. symptoms

there is chaos

we need managers

people lack direction

people are disconnected from goals

quality integration

engineering

motivation

iteration

The larger the company is – the more the problems there are...

projectprograms

quality integration

configuration

development

nobody-knows-what-the-hell

crisis

engineering

agile

iteration

motivation

change

risks

The larger the company is – the more the problems there are...

project managerprograms manager

quality manager integration manager

change manager

configuration manager

development manager

nobody-knows-what-the-hell manager

crisis managerrisks manager

engineering manager

agile manager

iteration manager

motivation manager

The larger the company is – the more managers there are.

Is it a safe place?

We have a strong retention department

We have a strong team of architects

“Even with Agile Software Development you need to do software development.”

Ron Jeffries

I CANNOT SEE RESULTS.

WE NEED MEASUREMENTS.

Management is hard.

Especially, when you’re trying to manage wrong things.

END OF SIDE A

SIDE B

The 5th and the 6th beatles

Brian EpsteinMANAGER

George MartinPRODUCER

Brian gave space for the team to organize.

Was fired by the team.

Quit the team on his own

and Ringo was

hired.

George gave the space for the team to learn.

Latest albums

were mixed by the band.

Managed results Managed technologies

The two types of managers

“The two types of managers”

http://www.slideshare.net/rodrigobranas/mary-poppendieck-the-professor-and-the-entrepreneur

The three types of managers

Owner of Product A

dev mentor

feature team 2

Owner of Product B

test mentor

ux mentor

ux

tester

dev

feature team 1 feature team 3

ux

tester tester tester tester

ux

dev devdev dev dev

scrum- master

agile coach

scrum-master

scrum- master

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1. managers-

entrepreneurs2.

managers-professors

3.managers-facilitators

1) Don’t manage people.

2) Don’t manage problems.

My outcomes:

Because by doing this you’re fixing symptoms.

1) Purpose

2) Autonomy

Work on the root-level.

3) Mastery“Drive” by Daniel Pink

Enable:

Owner of Product A

dev mentor

feature team 2

Owner of Product B

test mentor

ux mentor

ux

tester

dev

feature team 1 feature team 3

ux

tester tester tester tester

ux

dev devdev dev dev

scrum- master

agile coach

scrum-master

scrum- master

dev devdevdev

PURPOSE

MASTERY

AUTONOMY

Alexey Krivitsky@alexeykri

krivitsky@scrumguides.com