Know your self (organisation)
TLDR: Self organisation isn’t something you can teach, it’s an inherent property of the team and system. Coach teams to make use of it using constraints and attractors. (if you want more of this kind of thing, sign up to my Substack where I'll be publishing in the future) The Problem The idea of self organisation has become pretty commonplace in the agile world. I’m going to tell you about some of the origins of the concept in cybernetics and complex dynamical systems theory, and argue that Self organisation means something more precise and different from how you may have thought of it. If we don’t understand that definition we will make mistakes that get in the way of our agile teams rather than helping them On an individual level, self organisation can be used as ‘get yourself organised’ in a kind of self helpy, ‘get your shit together’ kind of way. At the team level it often translates to ‘the team gets to choose how to work’. This usually comes with a value judgement ...