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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


One Response to “Jeff Sutherland on Self-Organization”

  1. 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.

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