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Q&A with Creating Great Teams authors Sandy Mamoli and David Mole
What is self-selection?
Self-selection a way of letting people choose which team to work in. It is a facilitated process of letting people self-organize into small, cross-functional teams. It is the fastest and most efficient way to form stable teams and is based on a belief that people are at their happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with.
How is self-selection different from self-organization?
Self-organizing teams are groups of motivated individuals who work together toward a shared goal and have the ability and authority to take decisions and readily adapt to changing demands. We like self-organizing teams, but that’s not what this book is about.
This book is about self-selection, which is a process you can use to set up self-organizing teams in the first place. Self-selection happens at an organizational level rather than at a team level and is a way to get everyone into teams. Another term for a self-selected team is a self-designed team.
What are the advantages of self-selection?
From the data we collected we know that self-selected teams are:
- More stable.
- Happier.
- More productive.
- More motivated.
Self-selection honors the principles of trusting people to be responsible adults who can solve complex problems and organize in a way that’s best for the organization and themselves. We believe that organizations get the best results when people can choose what they work on and who they work with.
How does Self-Selection work?
Organize a session where everyone gets together and chooses which team they want to work in.
The process is iterative and facilitated and looks like the figure to the left.
What will people take away from reading your book?
They will learn how to prepare for and organize a self-selection event. If they’re managers, they’ll learn how to convince their fellow managers that it’s a good idea in the first place, and how to communicate with their self- selection participants to make sure everyone is on board and ready.
Developers, testers, BAs, UXers, and anyone else who does hands-on work will learn how to influence their colleagues and bosses to be open to the idea of self-selection. They will be able to provide their bosses with a plan for how to facilitate a self-selection event and evidence that the system works.
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| Liftoff | Creating Great Teams | Real-World Kanban | Lean from the Trenches | Manage Your Project Portfolio, 2nd edition | |
| Covers | Align your team to one purpose: successful delivery. Start projects and teams the right way, with expanded concepts for planning, organizing, and conducting liftoff meetings. | People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice - here's how to set them up. | Your team is stressed; priorities are unclear. If your team is struggling with these symptoms, these four case studies will guide you to project success. | When systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. See how to deliver a successful project using Lean principles. | You have too many projects, and firefighting and multitasking are keeping you from finishing any of them. Discover agile and lean ways to collect all your work and decide which projects you should do first, second, and never. |
| Page Count | 150 | 102 | 138 | 178 | 240 |
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I raced through this little book in about 90 minutes. It is very good, very practice and very nicely written.
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Help your people choose their own teams at work. Find out how in this book.
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