{"id":204,"date":"2020-04-07T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/intern\/tech\/?p=204"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T10:33:52","slug":"5-steps-to-self-organization-the-story-of-a-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/tech\/5-steps-to-self-organization-the-story-of-a-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"5 steps to Self-Organization \u2013 The Story of a Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.<\/p><cite>Agile Principle<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the &#8220;Age of<em> RE<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; reorganization, recreation, rebuilding, redesign &#8211; we need to go back to the roots and start new again, while accommodating the changing needs of the time. We shape the behavior of the customer with every line of code aimed to bring value. Digitalization brings forth bitcoins, robots, learning algorithms, e-bots, but behind everything is the human. According to Modern Agile, the main engine to success is to make people awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to achieve good things you need a\ngood team, but if you want amazing results you need to aim for a self-organized\nteam. Self-management asks people to take individual responsibility and\ninitiative while at the same time working together as a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a Scrum Master\/Team Coach working for\nDigital Innovation Partners and my ultimate goal is to help the teams deliver\nto its best, while learning to become self-organizing. Following this goal, I\nlearned many useful things during my Agile journey, things that helped me grow\npeople and myself on the way. Because sharing is caring, I would like to share\nwith you what I learned across time, while aiming for self-organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a blueprint nor a general truth, it\nrepresents my observations during the last four years of interaction with Agile\nTeams. These 5 aspects play a role in the team evolution, for some teams are\nmore important, for other teams less, people need to inspect and adapt to what\nfits them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Team Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean<\/p><cite>Ryunosuke Satoro<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Team personal time is the POWER ingredient\nthat builds the team together, while creating a collective emotional\nintelligence. People that resonate with each other, that find their common\nhobbies and share their values and their weaknesses, while asking for help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How do your friends call you?<\/em> was a question from one team member\nand we all understood we are moving to another level, a deeper one that allows\nus to create a safe environment for unsafe behavior. You cannot fight an\nimpediment you do not know, however if you have openness in the team and people\nare approachable, this will never slow the team down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Scrum Master\/Team Coach we need to get\npeople connected, understand what drives them, synchronize skills and passions.\nUseful Tools are <em>Get To Know Each Other Sessions<\/em>, Agile Game Based\nLearning, Pair Programming, Mob Programming, cross reviews, team events,\ncooking together, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One important thing that helped one team to get closer to each other was the 4th question in the <em>Daily \u2013 How do you feel?<\/em> We learned about ourselves and what makes us happy or sad and build a collective emotional power that lead to increased collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team that is personally strongly bound will\nmost likely become self-organized and move fast towards delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team self-selection concept raised by the Australian\nauthor Sandy Mamoli<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> is\na great way to build a team with matching personalities and speeds up the\nforming of the team process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Let it come. Let it go. Let it flow<\/p><cite>Anonymous<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The FLOW is everything to a self-organized\nteam. We first recognize it in the <em>communication<\/em>, as the Team has a\nsmooth communication from Business to Designers, to Developers to Stakeholders\nto Customers. Without interruption, the Team ensures information moves from one\ngroup to another and there is no constrain in between. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coach can ensure this continuous flow\nthrough Team Agreements (Team rules, DoR, DoD), keeping everything transparent.\nNormally the so called \u201ccommunication issues\u201d are simple bottlenecks for which\nthe Team knows the solution itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, the FLOW emerges from Communication to TASKS.\nEverybody knows what they have to do, as long as they have agreed to a common\nGOAL. In a Scrum environment one does a thing, teaches a second and learns a\nthird in order to keep the Flow going and reach their goals. One\u2019s transparency\nand accountability motivate each other to move the tasks from inventory to\ndelivery. To achieve that the Team needs to understand the principles of GOALS\nsetting, respect the agreements and act with consciousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, Documentation is an important outcome of\nthe Flow that enables the Team to keep the Backbone of the Project solid and\nensure flexibility and recovery when surprises happen, as well as ensuring a\nsmooth and efficient onboarding for the new members, without overloading the\nold ones and disturbing the Force J. Documentation Process is being\ndiscussed while forming the Team and integrated into the Team agreements,\nensuring it becomes a habit, but a living one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rules and structure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid<\/p><cite>Anna Kendrick<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Scrum is the most common used\nframework that matches the 12 Agile principles building habits and repeating\nthe structure over and over again. The sprint loop allows the teams to get used\nto the structure and the Scrum Master to guide the team while understanding the\nreasons and benefits behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reach self-organization you need\ndiscipline, as well as flexibility. You need to understand that one format\ndoesn\u2019t fit everyone, so you need to balance between the Scrum rules and the\nteam\u2019s uniqueness. If this balance is achieved fast, this will speed up the\nself-organization process.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this we come back again to team\nagreements, where we capture how we behave with one another and how we want to\nwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A good team will follow the Scrum Methodology,\na great team will create its own Scrum model that fits the people in the team,\nwhile respecting the Agile Principles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Autonomy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Control leads to compliance, autonomy leads to engagement<\/p><cite>Daniel Pink<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Autonomy is the freedom to decide how to\nachieve the desired outcomes. This is one great thing about Scrum that empowers\nPOs and team members. You do not have a leader in the team, rather you have a\nteam of leaders who take ownership and responsibility, who look into the\ncustomer needs and propose the best technical solution while working together as\na team on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While bringing Back End, Front End, Design,\nTesting together, you make sure you do not \u2018throw anything over the wall\u2019 and\nthere is an agreed logic in everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having the power to decide and seeing their\nideas coming to life in the customer solution drives people and energizes them\nfor more delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Time is money<\/p><cite>Benjamin Franklin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to become a self-organized team, you\ndefinitely need time, otherwise this cannot be achieved in a short run. You\nneed time to build habits, get people accommodate with each other, experiment\nstructures and build the flow. There will be ups and downs, learnings about\nourselves as a team, as well as individuals. In coaching one needs to start\nsmall, step by step, to then move to other topics in order to improve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need time to reflect back, to acknowledge\nand make room for change. The biggest challenge is however to balance the time\nwith the speed of delivery, in order to achieve \u201ctwice the work in half the\ntime\u201d! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To capture the evolution of the team and its\njourney towards self-organization, a Scrum Master\/team coach could keep a\nStatus Quo paper, describing the starting point of the team or agree on metrics\nto measure team performance over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Many thanks to the ZEISS Digital Customer Companion Team members for the passion, drive and power to deliver amazing products to life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  <figure id=\"image-wo-block_5e8aefe2d7fd8\" class=\"image-options  none full-width\">\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"image-wo\">\n       <div class=\"image-wo-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"copyright black\">\u00a9 Providence Doucet on Unsplash<\/div>\n      \n\n                       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/providence-doucet-mE5MBZX5sko-unsplash-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n                 <\/div>\n          \n\n\n\n\n  <!-- end image-options-->\n  <\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoq.com\/presentations\/self-selection-teams\/\">https:\/\/www.infoq.com\/presentations\/self-selection-teams\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;Age of RE&#8221; &#8211; reorganization, recreation, rebuilding, redesign &#8211; we need to go back to the roots and start new again, while accommodating the changing needs of the time. 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