Here is some highlights from Cristopher Avery’s speech “Team Work Is An Individual Skill: How To Build Any Team Any Time“.
- Responsibility is feeling of ownership. Don’t mix it up with accountability.
- Idea is to keep range of your responsibility bigger than your accountability. Most of the problems lay between the zones of accountability which are not owned by anybody.
- Team is shared responsibility
- Agile is a mind set, not a tool-set problem.
- There are five phases when faced with problems, know them so you can snap out of them until reaching the last one: 1. Lay blame, 2. Justify, 3. Shame, 4. Obligation (have to but don’t want to), 5. Responsibility
- It is prisoner’s dilemma. Turn it into win-win game.
Yep, as guessed, no silver bullet once more. Problem is summarized nicely at the beginning of the speech actually: What do you do when your reputation depends on other people whom you have no control over? Answer lies in the hope that everybody feels the same. There can be a solution once the game rules are for everybody.
Probably I was not very careful while listening the speech since I missed the part about how to play the same game.
