[OSList] Ken Schwaber on self-org & "control" in Agile adoptions

[Daniel Mezick via OSList]

This is an interesting, short blog post from Ken Schwaber (Scrum 
co-originator) on how to organize up to 200 software developers without 
doing much of anything at all. For those of you with little Agile 
experience, realize that most Agile adoptions do not ever consider the 
approach Ken is advocating, presumably because of "too much chaos." 
Instead, the Scrum and Agile is pushed, mandated, managed, imposed and 
coerced, and teams, Product Owners and Scrum Masters are assigned by 
"management."

https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/self-organization-and-our-belief-that-we-are-in-charge/
"...I pose the following question to Scrum Masters: “What is the best 
way to organize 100 developers into Scrum Teams and ensure that they 
select the correct Product Backlog items.”

"The correct answer is to let the developers organize themselves into 
Scrum Team."

...ha...and...

"... Imagine the arrogance of a Scrum Master who believes that he/she 
knows how developers should organize better than the people themselves."

And so here we can see how genuine OST and genuine Agile actually fit 
together beautifully. I can't imagine why typical Agile adoptions are 
typically not initiated in Open Space.

Maybe something to do with control?


Regards,
Daniel

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