24 September 2007- 09:52 PM

Lucky Teams and Self-Aware Leaders

by Vince Kellen, Senior Consultant

After studying human organizations for more than four decades, organizational learning guru Chris Argyris accurately, if not cynically noted that organizational problems show up worldwide. All cultures create similar dysfunctional organizations. He further notes that the failure for organizations to perform and learn isn’t just an organizational problem, but also an individual problem. In order [...]

Comments [0] Category: Agile Project Management, IT Management, Leadership
13 September 2007- 12:03 PM

No More Self-Organizing Teams

by Jim Highsmith, Director and Fellow

[The following is an email advisory written this week (9-13) that generated several comments. I've reproduced it here to encourage more interaction.]
I’ve been thinking recently that the term “self-organizing” has outlived its usefulness in the agile community and needs to be replaced. While self-organizing is a good term, it has, unfortunately, become confused with anarchy [...]

Comments [32] Category: Agile Project Management, Featured
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