Organising Self-Organising Teams

jason.coghlan

The development of Drupal is an example self-organisation operating at a grand scale. Contributors and maintainers share ideas, collaborate, and coordinate development tasks across a globally distributed team of thousands. 

If that's possible, shouldn’t it be relatively straightforward for smaller, co-located development teams to self organise and successfully complete less ambitious projects without a great deal of management and guidance?

If it were that easy, project managers would have been looking for a different career some time ago.

I’ll share my own experience as a project manager and look at case studies to examine the reality of self organisation on actual projects. We'll explore the factors that lead to a high level, or a lack of self organisation, including:

  • Scope, time and budget

  • Methodology and process

  • Management style and leadership

  • Team structure and roles

  • Personality and behaviour

  • Organisational culture

This session will encourage you think about how self-organised your teams currently are, look at the factors that are influencing them, and provide you with tips and techniques to encourage more self-organisation on your projects.

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Session Track

Project Management

Experience Level

Beginner

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