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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."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/self-organization-and-our-belief-that-we-are-in-charge/">https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/self-organization-and-our-belief-that-we-are-in-charge/</a><br>
"...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.”
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<p>"The correct answer is to let the developers organize themselves
into Scrum Team."<br>
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<p>...ha...and...<br>
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<p>"...
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Imagine the arrogance of a Scrum Master who believes that he/she
knows how developers should organize better than the people
themselves."<br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>Maybe something to do with control? <br>
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Regards,<br>
Daniel <br>
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