The Self Selecting Organisation - Total Squadification at Trade Me
Inspired by Spotify's squads and Atlassian's Fedex day we let 90 people choose what they wanted to work on and who they wanted to work with. Through telling the story of Trade Me, New Zealand's biggest ecommerce platform, we will demonstrate how good leadership can inspire and empower people using a scalable self-selection process along with a vision for an exciting picture of the future. Flying in the face of conventional wisdom and traditional management practices a middle manager and an Agile coach didn't ask for permission, and removed significant obstacles and constraints to successfully form 18 self-chosen, fully skilled squads. In this session we will show how we facilitated self-organisation on a scale we don't believe has been done before, what we had to go through to convince people that this was a good idea, how we learned how to visualise the process and dealt with brilliant people as well as a few difficult ones! We will describe how we had the exciting opportunity to observe and partake in a social experiment where people made decisions on the fly and stayed true to our values of being trusted, straight up and to grow great people. All Agile teams self-organise but we took the principles to a whole other level and created the self-organising organisation.
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The Self Selecting Organisation - Total Squadification at Trade Me
- 1. Sandy Mamoli sandy@nomad8.com @smamol moley@trademe.co.nz @molio David Mole The Self-Organising Organisation Total Squadification at Trade Me
- 4. 85% of New Zealanders are members 700,000 Unique Visitors Each Day
- 6. Each month we: • Send 80 million emails • Serve 1.5 billion pages • Sell 3000 chickens Every second we have: • 10,000 images served • 20,000+ DB transactions • 450 auctions viewed
- 7. Growth
- 9. We asked and found ... Projects take a really long time We don’t know where our projects are at We can’t trust the estimates
- 15. Squads
- 18. Find the bright spot
- 19. Mobilesquads
- 20. Speed up!
- 22. Ship-it Day
- 24. Get stuff done in a playful way
- 25. Everybody worked in a team
- 27. Teams were small
- 28. The one and only team!
- 29. A pivotal moment …
- 33. Fear!
- 35. Trial selection
- 37. What we learned from Trial Visualisation Skills and people Rinse and repeat faster Display management buy-in The principle works
- 38. Going all in
- 39. Going all in …
- 41. A leap of faith for people
- 44. A fully formed squad is … Capable of delivering end-to-end 3-7 people Co-located
- 61. The last round
- 63. Observations
- 64. Rounds
- 65. Survey Most people liked the process Most people work in the squad they expected Most people like where they ended up
- 66. It’s all about relationships
- 67. Management We can trust people What people want to work with - hiring Attractive areas of the business
- 68. The beginning not the end
- 69. Lean coffee
- 72. What we Learned
- 75. What we’d do differently
- 76. Need more input
- 77. Key people on holiday
- 78. What next?
- 80. 6 months later
- 81. The future
- 82. Would it work for you?
- 85. Sandy Mamoli sandy@nomad8.com @smamol moley@trademe.co.nz @molio David Mole Thank You :-) www.nomad8.com/team-self-selection-kit