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Book Review: Management 3.0

It's challenging to be a manager or a leader, much less both, and the challenges are greater on an agile team. Jurgen Appelo's book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders explores what management and leadership mean in a world of agile and self-organizing teams.

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Steve Berczuk
Creating an Environment that Supports Self-Organizing Teams

Self-organizing agile teams leverage some basic qualities about what motivates people to help teams deliver. Since these qualities often run counter to traditional management structures, it takes effort to create an environment that supports these kinds of teams.

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Steve Berczuk
Do Agile Teams Really Need Managers?

Steve Berczuk explores whether or not we really need managers in an agile team. Managers perform a variety of functions that are useful for self-organizing teams. The challenge is how to perform those functions effectively while keeping with the spirit of self-organization.

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Steve Berczuk
Acknowledging Work Effort Can Increase Productivity and Motivation

Steve Berczuk writes on the importance of acknowledgement in making people feel good about work. Simply acknowledging someone’s effort can lead to increased engagement and motivation—and result in more productivity.

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Steve Berczuk
Self-Organizing Teams and New York's Soda Size Ban

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy relates New York's unpopular soda size ban with the conflicts that arise from self-organizing teams. Michael Bloomberg (ScrumMaster) had good intentions to save lives by bringing this change; however, he didn’t get support from the citizens (self-organized team).

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How Will Agile Software Practices Look in the Future?

As agile adoption continues to gain popularity, it appears that Scrum is at the forefront of many agile implementations. Given the rise of Scrum, it makes sense that you might wonder how agile will continue to evolve as new methodologies—some of which may replace Scrum—are being developed.

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Mukesh Chaudhary
Why Managers Can Be Valuable to Self-Organizing Agile Teams

As challenging as it is to find a good manager, having one on your team can be valuable, especially in the context of an already effective team. So rather than assuming that self-organizing agile teams don’t need managers, consider the value a good manager can add.

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Steve Berczuk
Developing Self-Organizing Agile Teams

Agile teams are supposed to be self-organizing, but self-organization may not happen on its own. It runs counter to the ways in which people usually work. Steve Berczuk examines the benefits and challenges of self-organizing teams—and some tips on making them work.

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