Mike Vincent Architect, ALM Coach MVA Software SESSION CODE: DPR305

Herding Pigs – Managing Self Organizing Teams

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So, What’s the point? Tactics for managing self organizing teams Key principles for managing people to maximize productivity Leverage the best engineering practices and tools for both team and management effectiveness

Teams of Motivated People that get the job done

Why Self-organizing Teams?

How Do You Manage a Self-Organizing Team?

The Role of Managing Self Organizing Teams

Performing Norming Storming Forming

Make the context of self-organization well known

Subtle control and influence

KITA - Management by Motivation or Management by Movement?

How’s the work context?

So, are our self-organizing teams getting the job done?

Code Reviews Unit Testing Code Coverage Test Driven Development Code Analysis Code Metrics Application Profiling

Scrum Smells Loss of Rhythm Talking Chickens Missing Pigs Failing Backlog Management Persistent Signatures ScrumMaster Assigns Work The Daily Scrum is For the ScrumMaster Specialized Job Roles Testers will not integrate with Team Reluctance to estimate Backlog Items Is It Really Done? Nothing Ever Changes Around Here No One Wants to Attend Retrospectives Executive Pressure Missing Sprint Commitment Not Acting Like a Team No Engineering Practices Gorilla in the Room Technical Debt

Leverage the best engineering practices and tools for both team and management effectiveness

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