Agile Humans Meetup #30: From Self-Coaching Individuals to Self-Managing Teams?

UNPACKING SELF-ORGANIZATION IN AGILE

Self-organization is a key principle of Agile. Would agile practice be just another management-led process without it, or is it just a myth we use to increase productivity? Did we lose sight of where the journey towards high performing, highly motivated teams starts? Did we keep in mind how important individuals are?

Although the concept is utterly essential to the way people work together in an agile environment, it has sometimes been misunderstood or even disputed among the agile community.

So, let’s break the concept of self-organization down, and discuss what it really means, and, (maybe) more importantly, how to get there? Drawing on a range of examples of self-organization beyond software this interactive talk we will unpack the concept and give you a framework to build self-organization.

During the meeting we will discuss:

• The agile definition of self-organization
• What is the difference between self-organizing and self-managing teams?
• What’s the most valuable parts of the Scrum framework for self-organization?
• What is the role of individuals in self-managing teams?
• How important are self-awareness and self-coaching?
• What about self-assessment?
• How can you develop the phenomena of self-organization?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

KARL ROYLE

Karl is head of enterprise at the University of Wolverhampton UK and a Certified Scrum Professional. He is interested in Scrum beyond software and the creation of a learner agency through self-organisation.
An Agile organizational change strategist and facilitator, a digital learning specialist.
Karl is an agile and Scrum expert and uses Open Space Technology, Scrum and Kanban methodologies to transform project-based learning in education. Together with his international partner and close friend Jasmina Nikolić, he has developed the concept of Agile Pedagogy using Scrum Project Management for learning.
Karl is the course leader for various innovative programs such as the MA education program, “Learning in the Digital Age” and has led several ICT and Education related evaluation projects. He is an advocate of using ubiquitous technology in Higher Education program mobiles and free software for collaboration and is a member of the UK JISC expert group in the UK.

Karl has recently been awarded his PhD which focused on Actor-Network Theory (how the social is always acted into being), Human Capability and Agile aspects of why interventions and projects succeed or fail.

Event moderator: Marija Nikolić

Looking forward to seeing you!

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