Jeff Sutherland on Self-Organization
Posted by Christophe on March 17, 2009
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
Steve McGee said
This is a great video showing metrics of successful (disciplined) Scrum implementations.
I also notice that the speaker often mentions using Scrum outside of software development – marketing, sales, VC, church programs, etc. This is my biggest interest in Scrum. I helped a manufacturer implement Scrum methods in a transfer-pricing project with a consultant firm. (It was more like ‘Scrum-Butt’ as the speaker calls it).
The theoretical part of the video is excellent – these ideas need to be understood, or at least trusted, in order to have commitment to adopting Scrum.