About the Munich Scrum Gathering - pt. 3
(continuation of last post)
Joseph Pelrine pointed to the ABIDE model (from Dave_Snowden) as the “levers” that can be pulled in order to change the way a team is self-organized.
ABIDE stands for: Attractors, Boundaries, Identities, Diversity and Environment. Let’t have a quick look to some simples examples for each one of these “levers”:
- Attractors: add a charismatic guy as a lead developer to the team
- Boundaries: Code sucks? Bring in different testers
- Identities: related with roles and responsibilities
- Diversity: increase the diversity in the team: is the team composed only by Java developers? Bring a new one into the team whose background is .NET – very homogenous teams don’t self-organize
- Environment: change software, change hardware, offer free massages at lunch
In the afternoon, I attended (David Harvey’s) presentation “Social Objects: Dilbert considered harmful?”
So, what is a Social Object? Hugh McLeod (of (gapingvoid.com) fame) has explained it (here quite well in layman’s terms) - a Social Object is a pretext, a reason to people socialize “around it”.
David Harvey’s presentation highlighted that our environment affects how we behave - i.e. your behavior changes according with you are exposed to. And this also includes that Dilbert cartoon printout on your work place. (Read here what David has to say about it); I’ve even stopped to use (my despair.com mug at work) :).
