What do you do when the organisation has scaled back and you’re already as lean as you can be?

You give people more autonomy!

I spoke at Agile Perth about how to actually do that: With self-selecting teams, and ways to handle the freedom and responsibility that comes with choosing your own path.

“Self-selection isn’t a trust fall. It’s disciplined autonomy.”

Sandy Mamoli and David Mole sat down with Biunca Hooper of the Business Agility podcast to talk about self-selecting teams: why it works, where it fails, and the simple guardrails that make it robust, not chaotic.

David Mole and I joined Meta-Cast to share what we have learned after a decade of running self-selecting teams.

Organisations get the best results when people can choose what they work on and who they work with. In that spirit we decided to let people self-organise into small, cross-functional teams called squads. Up until last week we had six established squads within two tribes the rollout had been purposef...

... let teams self-select! At Trade Me we’re in the process of getting everyone into small, cross-functional teams (squads) that will persist over time and across projects. Up until last week we had six established squads and the rollout had been purposefully slow and controlled. Now we felt there...