Founding managing director Scott Maxwell combines the work cycles of self-organizing teams with a balanced scorecard approach.
Now an analogous message emerges here in politics: a campaign based on self-organizing teams with a laser-like focus on meeting the needs of individual voters is also the future of politics.
Improvements such as introducing self-organizing teams may be tolerated for a period, particularly if they appear to make money in the short run or if they can be used to solve a specific problem.
Those managing the work had to shift from being controllers of individuals to enablers of self-organizing teams, with responsibility for establishing priorities in a timely fashion and removing impediments as they are identified, rather than controlling each worker.
It will require a different goal (adding value for customers), a different role for managers (enabling self-organizing teams), a different way of coordinating work (dynamic linking), different values (continuous improvement and radical transparency) and different communications (horizontal conversations).
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It will require a different goal (delighting the customer), a different role for managers (enabling self-organizing teams), a different way of coordinating work (Agile and dynamic linking), different values (continuous improvement and radical transparency) and different communications (horizontal conversations).
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Efforts to put in place a new role for managers as enablers of self-organizing teams, new Agile methods of coordinating work, new values of trust and transparency and continuous improvement, and horizontal communications will inevitably fall foul of the prevailing mental model of how the C-suite expects the firm to work.
Agile software development comprises a set of management practices and values based on customer focus achieved through iterative and incremental development, and where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams and their customers.
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