Today the Scrum and non-violent communication keynote was given at a local expert session in Munich. Was nice to work with – and even to get corrected by – my wifey in front of the audience for not-proper-nvc-language-usage.
Find the slides here (german, 9.3 MB)
Scrum is based on self-organized teams. Self-organized teams are able to evolve and adapt quicker in today’s highly complex working environments than traditional command-and-control management structures. At the same time, self-organized teams are more robust to external disturbances, are faster and more creative in problem solving as they use the full potential of the team and not only one single decision making (and often bottle-necked) brain as seen in hierarchical command-and-control structures. In this blog, I will elaborate on two questions “How to actually “do” self-organization?” and “What do I need to help teams to self-organize...