Great digital teams are at the forefront of understanding this and you’ve probably experienced some of their products. Those where every interaction from the sign up experience, to payment, to interactions with their product is easy and sometimes enjoyable. They make your life better and help you solve your problems.

I was at a Saturday meetup recently, the 10th birthday of the Melbourne Scrum and Agile user group. 10 years since this group came together, many conferences have spawned from the group of over 4,000 members of what must be one of the most enduring Agile communities in Melbourne.  

The world is changing and being disrupted at every turn. To succeed today and into the future, your business needs the ability to quickly adapt and deal with complexity, be constantly innovating and perform better than your competitors. New structures are needed for this, which is where empowered, self organising teams come in.

Retros are so utterly magical that I’m often given to exclaiming ‘Wow I love Retros!’ in the middle of a Retro, because the insights are incredibly simple to come by, and yet simply wouldn’t have been surfaced or released with the approach we’d used up until that point.

PART 2

One of a triptych on alternatives that disrupt traditional Human Resource methods with concepts that move us towards the Future of Work. The topic in the cross hairs today is The Position or Job Description, and the notion that Job Descriptions lead you down a path to performing that role, and that is maybe the worst outcome you could get.

PART 1

One of a triptych on alternatives that disrupt traditional Human Resource methods with concepts that move us towards the Future of Work. Agile working has become the new Way of Working. Once considered the territory of the reckless and sloppy, now most of the free world is considering how they can implement these better ways of working into their teams and orgs.

DAY 12… and the final post in the series. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly. Did I hear someone say Retrospective?

DAY 11…The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. Whoa, that’s a bit radical isn’t it? What are we saying here? That we don’t need managers?!

DAY 10… I’ll try and keep things real simple. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential. We can illustrate this quite easily when you observe agile ways of working.