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Doc Norton, CEO

doc@wearecto2.com

@DocOnDev

Stable Teams

– Scrum PLoP Stable Teams Pattern

“Keep teams stable and avoid shuffling people around between teams. Stable teams tend to get to know their capacity, which makes it possible for the business to have some predictability.”

Why Stable Teams?

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“…different areas of code are going to need different skill-sets at different times, and for that reason we need [people] to go and work on those particular areas at different times… None of this is basically static. It’s very fluid. And if you have the ability to reteam, then you are able to go do this sort of thing consistently.”

– Michael Feathers

“None of this is basically static. It’s very fluid. And if you have the ability to reteam, then you are able to go do this sort of thing consistently.”

– Michael Feathers

reteam

Cabals at Valve

Spotify

reteam starters

#Agile2016 / #CultureACED / @DocOnDev

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–Nayan Hajratwala

“Reteaming is inevitable. You might as well get good at it.”

Only try to realize the truth.

There is no team.

Doc Norton, CEO

doc@wearecto2.com

@DocOnDev

thank you!

• Stable Teams Pattern - https://sites.google.com/a/scrumplop.org/published-patterns/product-organization-pattern-language/development-team/stable-teams

• Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development

• Using the Stages of Team Development - http://hrweb.mit.edu/learning-development/learning-topics/teams/articles/stages-development

• Stages of Small-Group Development Revisited - http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~daeme101/Stages%20of%20Small-Group%20Development%20Revisted.pdf

• Theories and Models of Group Development - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_development

• DAU Model of Team Development - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a493549.pdf

• Dynamic Reteaming: How We Thrive by Rebuilding Teams - https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/H.Helfand.Dynamic-Reteaming-How-We-Thrive-by-Rebuilding-Teams.pdf

• Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking by Gerald Weinberg - http://amzn.to/2d7SIZ9

• Valve Handbook - http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1074301/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

• Spotify Culture Video - https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/

• Squads / Chapters / Guilds - http://nomad8.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Squads-Chapters-Guilds-in-one-page.graffle.pdf

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