Duration 90 minutes
EXPECTATIONS How to develop competence with 7 organizational approaches How to optimize the whole measuring performance on multiple levels About different organizational forms, like hierarchy, matrix, panarchy
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Agile team members create their own rules. But something else is needed for good results: some call it discipline, craftsmanship, or competence. There are 7 approaches to achieving competence in a self-organizing system. And communication is crucial too! Organizations are small-world networks, and people are a very diverse bunch of connectors. From network and systems theory we can learn how to use boundaries, patterns & scale symmetry to our advantage in growing scalable organizations.
LONG DESCRIPTION
Agile team members create their own rules, based on constraints imposed by the environment. But something else is needed for good results: some call it discipline, craftsmanship, or competence. Traffic management teaches us that there are 5 approaches to achieving competence in a self-organizing system. And communication is crucial too! Organizations are small-world networks, and people are a very diverse bunch of connectors. From network and systems theory we can learn how to use boundaries, patterns, scale symmetry and auto-catalysis to our advantage in growing scalable agile organizations.
There are two main themes in this session: competence and communication. But they are so much intertwined that I prefer to treat them in one big session, instead of two smaller ones. In both cases I will talk both a scientific viewpoint, and from a very practical viewpoint.
The competence part deals with craftsmanship. Everybody knows it is important, but few know what an organization (and management) should do to support and promote craftsmanship when projects are run by self-organizing teams.
The communication part deals with organizational structure, which has a big impact on competence development. We can learn from network theory and systems theory how organizations and projects can get bigger without collapsing.