Scrum Day Madison is a month away! Even though Madison is a smaller town, this conference draws speakers from all over the world and it's in my backyard. I had a blast attending last year, showcasing my book and appearing in one of the conference's many panel...
Self-selection is a team-formation process in which employees choose who they work with and what they work on. If you're unfamiliar with self-selection you can learn more about it here, here, and in this 4-minute video. This fall, I taught the Computer Sciences...
A month ago, I recorded a podcast for The Agile Wire with Jeff Maleski and Jeff Bubolz, both amazing Agilists in the Milwaukee/Madison area with an incredible podcast. We covered self-selection topics at a broad level: everything from what it is to planning a...
In spring 2016, Jesse Huth and I ran our first self-selection event at Opower and were immediately hooked. It is such an empowering and powerful process that we’ve spent the time since speaking, blogging, and podcasting about it whenever we can. But, as life...
To better get the word out on self-selection, we created a 4-minute video explaining what it is. Share if you think self-selection is as brilliant as we do!
Self-selection can be used to solve a myriad of organizational problems or situations. It fosters the habits that form the basis for a healthy organization: trust, empowerment, autonomy, mastery, and purpose (to name a few). Here are the most common reasons...
In Self-Selection, rules not only make your event run smoothly, they’re the real reason we end up with balanced teams that cover all the work — even the projects that may be less desirable. It’s important to think carefully about which rules to employ at your...
Whenever I pitch self-selection to someone new, unfailingly, I watch them go through various stages of emotion. First it’s “That’s really cool, this could solve our problem with retention or motivation or [insert other issue here]”, followed quickly by, “but wait, it...
This spring, after a large internal reorganization, Opower, the software company I worked for based outside of Washington, DC, experimented with self-selection. Forty distributed engineers were allowed to choose for themselves what team and projects...