Self organized team is a by-product

Philip Wang
Philip WangAgile Coach
Self-Organizing Team
is a by-product
Exercise
What enabled you to
accomplish this highly
complex task?
A tolerance of the players for uncertainty and ambiguity
Clear boundary
Underlying purpose
Skill/will of participants
Clear individual objectives
A few simple rules
Continuous feedback
Discretion and freedom of action
Ambiguity, randomness
far from equilibrium
Skill/will of the individual
people
Discretion and freedom
to act
Underlying, implicit and
unifying common purpose
Clear, explicit and
individual objectives
Boundaries enclosing
the action
A few simple rules of
the organization
Continuous and
unambiguous feedback
"4 + 4 Model for leading complexity" by Nick Obolensky
http://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/firefly-flash-patterns.htm
https://6legs2many.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/ant-bridge/
Self organized team is a by-product
Self organized team is a by-product
self-organizing system
characters
• distributed control
• continuous adaptation
• emergent structure
• continuous feedback
• resilience
“The best architectures,
requirements, and designs emerge
from self-organising teams.”
Is Self-Organizing Team the Goal?
CC0 Public Domain http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/static/photo/2x/Ball-Goal-Game-Field-Football-Soccer-Sport-Green-933037.jpg
“Conditions for Self-Organizing in Human Systems” - Glenda H. Eoyang
CDE Model
“Expanded CDE model” - InfoQ article by Sigi Kaltenecker and Peter Hundermark
“Expanded CDE model” - InfoQ article by Sigi Kaltenecker and Peter Hundermark
Challenge is to align individual goal with
organization vision
Align individual goal with
organization vision
Align individual goal with
organization vision
Autonomy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pfly/188629337
CC0 Public Domain http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Football-Ball-Sport-Goal-Kick-Outdoor-Corner-1678992
Actualizing organization vision!
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