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The 2nd Law of Software Development

November 11, 2008 by JurgenAppelo

Edgeofchaos In a previous blog post I wrote about the 1st Law of Software Development. This law deals with each manager’s concern to make sure that team members have the motivation to do their jobs well. But, for a job well done, their motivation alone is not enough! (I might be motivated to work in the middle of the night, but if I'm not allowed to, then what is my motivation good for?) In creative and productive organizations people require the power to do what is needed, so they can achieve the results their managers have asked for.

The 1st Law of Software Development = Motivate People
The 2nd Law of Software Development = Empower People

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Do you enjoy Self-Organizing team?

December 26, 2007 by sureshkrishna

There days many organizations practicing Agile processes are expecting team members to be multi-talented and be able to work in variety of situations. More frequently we hear the terms like "Self-Organizing" or "Self-Managing" teams in the Scrum world.

In the software development we have learned that the software is becoming more and more complex as the variables technology and requirements change (thus the upfront planning has become famous). In the traditional project management, the project manager used to take the responsibility of the Risks, Complexity, Deadlines, Release Plan, Testing, Documentation and etc... On the contrary the self-organized team is set of individuals with different skills and mostly complementing each other. This team is organized and re-organized depending on the project pressure, schedules and deadlines. This team wears different hats depending on the situation. This team works on a simple rule that "Tell me what to do; But not How to do" and sometimes even the baby steps.

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