Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel（读书笔记）

介绍[编辑]

1. Self-selection is a facilitated process of letting people self-organize into small, cross-functional teams.
   1. vs self-organizing teams
2. not project-lead cross-matrix, but stable fixed team

稳定团队设计的艺术[编辑]

1. Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds http://blog.crisp.se/2012/11/14/henrikkniberg/scaling-agile-at-spotify
2. Managerial Selection Breaks When Organizations Grow
3. 最好的激励：autonomy, mastery, and purpose
4. Lancaster—The Second World War’s Greatest Bomber，by Leo McKinstry 2009
5. Atlassian：the ShipIt Day concept 2004（这个例子感觉不太合适）
6. No one chooses to work on more than one team or project.
   1. Time and again organizations fall into the trap of optimizing resources rather than focusing on outcomes

为‘自我选择’做准备[编辑]

1. Preparation is vital!
   1. Conduct a Readiness Check（Agile过程似乎都内在地要求人的积极性，但是这个缺乏boost）
   2. Run a Trial
   3. Get Permission
      1. Initial Buy-In May Be Difficult，so：seeking forgiveness after the fact, rather than asking for permission beforehand
      2. ‘We didn't know whether this was going to work.’（这种说法就是在装逼+扯淡）
   4. Define the Teams to Select
      1. Preselect Certain Roles（product owner）
   5. Coordinate Logistics（哈哈哈，让一群老外开始自我选择真的是一件奇怪的事情：他们如何预先互相了解对方呢？）
   6. Communicate Early and Often
      1. What-if questions：它们基本上不会发生。。。
      2. the best results would come about if people could choose what to work on and who to work with

Getting Ready for the Day（进一步的准备）[编辑]

1. Define the Rules and Constraints
   1. Squads：
      1. have to be capable of delivering end to end（自主性）
      2. >=3 （2个人只能称为pair）—— 鼓励更少的人（一人身兼数职？靠）
      3. have to be co-located.
   2. Don’t Specify the Outcome Before You Start（这个地方叙述似乎有点矛盾不明之处...）
   3. Key principle: Do what is best for your company
2. Create a Facilitation Plan
3. Prepare Frequently Asked Questions（FAQs）
4. Prepare Materials and Stationery
   1. Preselection doesn't imply hierarchy

运行‘自我选择’[编辑]

1. Set Up the Room
   1. Photo Table（我真的很讨厌这些形式的东西，老外们都是脸盲么？）
   2. Countdown Clock
   3. Supporting Materials
2. Welcome People as They Arrive
3. Introduce the Day
4. Let Product Owners Pitch
   1. 很多时候PO（产品经理）有一个明确的目标：要做什么？但很多情况下需求是未知的！
5. Explain the Rules
6. Get people started: One, Two, Three, Go!（扯淡）
7. Conduct a Checkpoint Review
8. Rinse and Repeat
   1. You will have to be alert for any sign that people aren't really self-selecting.（确保每个人都是出自自我意愿地选择，而不是受别人的‘误导’/劝告，等等）
9. Tackle the Outstanding Problems
   1. Add imaginary people. Introduce “hire cards” and subsequently allow people to hire into their squads after the event.
10. Wrap Up

After Self-Selection: Now What?[编辑]

1. Kick squads off as early as possible（即使缺乏必要的talents/roles）.——这里有点扯淡了
2. What Not To Do
   1. 管理层不应违背雇员意愿，随意指派
   2. 比managerial selection更糟糕的是fake self-selection（忽悠，把你个人的目标包装成团队的目标；‘你的目标并非我的目标’）

洞见（Insights）[编辑]

1. Relationships Are the Deciding Factor
2. People Respond Well to This Level of Trust
   1. So，给予人们自主选择就是赋予信任吗？

Long-Term Effects of Self-Selection[编辑]

1. One measure of productivity was the total number of user stories（使用场景） shipped