Self-Organization – The Role of Managers
Self-organization is essential for agile product development. But where does self-organization start? What is it limited to? What is the role a managers in the context of self-organized teams?
Category: Self-Organization
How to get intrinsic motivation into your organization?
Intrinsic motivation means you do something because it is personally rewarding and fulfills your expectations, values or beliefs. You do something without external rewards, incentives or pressure.
How to support stages of a team development
You can underestimate the crucial role played by teams. Good teams can work excellent together and study shows that higher positivity on a team leads to higher productivity. Thus, developing a team must not be an option if you’re after more fabulous work experience.
The Four Ears Model
The four ears model by Friedemann Schulz von Thun explains how communication works in the field of practice. This four ears model is an excellent reminder of the extent of information we get when talking. Also, this communication model gives us critical points for further action or talks.
When does swarming make sense?
Most of you know the situation when we had planned some work, let’s say a few different tasks. Then we started most of them, work in parallel and when time is up only a small portion of the work is really completed. In teams working towards deadlines or iterations this usually at least feels bad or has consequences, such as more budget needs to be requested or delay of delivery.