Five years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate - Agile Cambridge 2023
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Traditional wisdom teaches us that long-lived, stable teams perform best, and that changing team membership is to be avoided as much as possible. At Redgate Software we’ve challenged this advice, believing it was better for our engineers and the overall organisation to deliberately change-up our teams every year. Our approach has been to encourage people to move towards the work they find most engaging, and this has helped us create a development culture of engagement, resilience and opportunity.
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Five years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate - Agile Cambridge 2023
- 1. Agile Cambridge 2023 Chris Smith Director of Engineering
- 4. • When team composition changes • Teams will always change: • People leave and join teams • People leave and join organizations • Organizations create new teams, split teams, disband teams • Change happens to us, but we can also choose to change
- 7. • “Teams with stable membership perform better” • “Keep your teams the same for predictability” • “We don’t want to repeat the ‘forming, storming, norming & performing’ pattern for each project”
- 10. “Groups that contain diverse views have a huge, often decisive, advantage.” Matthew Syed, Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
- 12. • Collective blindness and lack of Cognitive Diversity • Experts stuck in teams • Lack of opportunity to learn • Siloed teams • Lack of alignment and connectedness
- 13. “Team change is inevitable, so we might as well get good at it” Heidi Helfand, Dynamic Reteaming: The Art & Wisdom of Changing Teams
- 16. Team members have full freedom to move, form or disband teams when they choose Someone “at the top” has full control on team membership and lifecycle
- 18. Team members have full freedom to move, form or disband teams when they choose Someone “at the top” has full control on team membership and lifecycle
- 24. New Picture?
- 25. Explore Exploit Sustain Retire Increase Serviceable Addressable Market Maximise Return on Investment Maximise Profit Find Product Market fit
- 26. • To change how we invest our teams each year • To break down silos and encourage wider connectedness • To spread knowledge, best practice and innovation throughout the organisation • To enable personal growth and development • To align with our principles
- 28. 1. Communicate early and openly 2. Encourage people to explore 3. Coach everyone through sharing their preferences 4. Collaboratively create the new team structure 5. Support new & changing teams
- 32. By James Oladujoye on Pixabay
- 34. By Steve Buissinne on Pixabay
- 35. time Communicate early & openly Encourage exploration Share preferences Create team structure Support teams
- 37. By M W from Pixabay
- 41. We track the four key metrics from Accelerate and the State of DevOps report: • Delivery lead time • Deployment frequency • Change fail percentage • Mean time to restore (MTTR)
- 47. • Reteaming is an established, annual event • We’ve proven that we can respond to the needs of the company • People do want to move teams for personal growth • We’re better at forming teams and onboarding new joiners • Good practices and behaviours spread naturally between teams • Our people support the process • Positive for employer brand and hiring
- 49. References
- 50. linkedin.com/in/chrissmithagile chris.smith@red-gate.com Chris Smith Director of Engineering, Redgate Software leadingagileteams.com