In this week's Podcast we're on to the penultimate Agile Principle, number 11: 'The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.'

Amongst much more, we discuss:

-How what should actually constitute a team is the sharing of a problem, not a manager.
-The importance of employing a dynamic team approach, rather than a static one, to solving problems.
-How the unique specificity of this principle is designed to get us away from the old 'phase' approach and avoid costly hand-offs.
-Specific techniques to inspire a mutiny and become a self-organizing team, with some lessons from Stephen Bungay's 'The Art of Action', such as how to employ Direct Opportunism.
-The Spotify model and the importance of shunning the easy route of adopting an off-the-shelf model.

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SHOWNOTES:

-The 12 Agile Principles: http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html 

-Alistair Cockburn's mighty fine Koan for Agile development:
"Management tells the workers to mutiny.
The workers refuse"
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Self-organization+means+mutiny 

-Stephen Bungay's brilliant book, 'The Art of Action': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Action-Leaders-between-Actions/dp/1857885597/

-The unique case of the General Electric plant in Durham, North Carolina:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/ge.html

-Spotify's self-organised teams, not an off-the-shelf model to copy: https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/

-Sign up to CITCON in Vienna, there aren't many spaces left: http://citconf.com/

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Inspire a Mutiny and Become a Self-Organizing Agile Team

A listener question about running a Troubleshooting Agile study group inspires advice on keeping your learning from becoming lunchtime entertainment, as well as surprisingly relevant stories about a pottery class, a management seminar, and the Israeli military.

SHOW LINKS:
- Joel's tweet requesting advice on his study group: https://twitter.com/joelchippindale/status/1143137854278840321
 
- Our series on the twelve agile principles: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/the-importance-of-the-agile-principles

- Pottery story from Art & Fear: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0961454733/ via https://stratechery.com/2015/buzzfeed-important-news-organization-world/

- Joel Spolsky on Fire and Motion: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

- Reg Revans on action and learning: http://actionlearning.academy/benefits.html

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Learning Through Action

Troubleshooting Checklists

Checklists are a great way to capture learning in any organisation, but sometimes they don't work - why not? A recent study of hospitals with varying levels of success in adopting checklists helps us reflect on similar adoption challenges for agile methods.

SHOW LINKS:
- Checklist article from Nature: https://www.nature.com/news/hospital-checklists-are-meant-to-save-lives-so-why-do-they-often-fail-1.18057 

- Agile principle 12 on reflection and improvement: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/12-principles-behind-the-agile-manifesto/ 

- Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto: http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/

- Ignaz Semmelweis, promoter of hand-washing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis 

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Troubleshooting Checklists

Ellen Gottesdiener, a product coach, author, and CEO of EBG Consulting, shares her wisdom about marrying product management with Agile principles and practices. She speculates a future where there will be a “blending of disciplines where you don’t necessarily have a business area and a technology area”, just one product team with interdisciplinary team members. Her piece of advice to product people: Have strategic awareness of your product in the marketplace or “big view”, and get rid of junk in the backlog.

Gottesdiener also takes us down the memory lane to the beginnings of the Agile Conference – she has attended every one of them since Salt Lake City. She reminds us of the women who have had a large impact on the Agile community from the very beginning.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.

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