Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team

Google Tech Talks
September 4, 2008

ABSTRACT

High performance depends on the self-organizing capability of teams. Understanding how this works and how to avoid destroying self-organization is a challenge. Until you understand complex adaptive systems and how Toyota works it is difficult to improve team velocity. Jeff will discuss three core topics:

1. Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams.
2. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise known as the choice uncertainty principle.
3. Punctuated equilibrium - how software systems evolve

Take advantage of these concepts and you may find a way to achieve the ultimate potential of a team. This session will be a "Deep Agile" presentation keying off topics presented to engineers at MIT.

Speaker: Jeff Sutherland
Dr. Jeff Sutherland is one of the co-creators of the Scrum software development process. He and Ken Schwaber invented Scrum in 1993. Since then he has worked with many software companies and IT organizations to extend and enhance this process.

For more info please Google Jeff or visit his web site.

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  Science & Technology

[eddiepnd]

To spayced: This presentation is geared towards advanced users of SCRUM methodology, people who already know what sprint, waterfall, and team velocity mean.

You could have figured it out before watching by checking out the info section, it says clearly that "this session will be a "deep agile" presentation...". Also, the title is about "improving the team" - any team already using Agile development and SCRUM knows the terminology.

[jhlittle1]

To btmore: I can appreciate that it sounds paradoxical. As said earlier, you have to try it. Jeff Sutherland has done Scrum for 15 years; I think the associated teams are quite happy with it (not to mention his firms).

[HunsV]

In other words: Skip to 7:58. There is absolutely nothing of value before this.

[HunsV]

I like videos like this, but it seems that in every case, you have to waste huge amounts of time on completely irrelevant things. In this case we are shown that video of the guy dancing in different cities. WHO CARES????? If you have some thought to make a presentation like this available, or even if you're just doing it for a small audience, cut to the chase. Nobody can make any use of a dance video, and no one is interested in hearing more than 10 seconds of your personal history.

[Elizabeta Macovei]

00:24-4:40 DFTBA!

[illinois008]

i need to learn this.

[Doc List]

While the content is good, I wish Jeff would stop reading from the screen and turning his back on the audience.

[InnerRing]

deep indeed.!

[石村 耕平]

great

[partyhouse88]

the dancing part is gay

[Eddy Parkinson]

Albert Einstein said:

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach".

Please provide examples of what is worth doing, lots of them.