Road to Mastery | Virtual Edition | 07 | Surviving Self-Management

Imagine your team is stranded on an island. Do they have everything they need to manage on their own?

During this adventure, you will coach each other in fostering the conditions for self-management to thrive. Let’s experience the beauty of a well-managed, unmanaged team. You’ll be able to provide teams with self-management survival kits and skills.

• Identifying which preconditions for self-management are present in current practice;
• Applying powerful metaphors to illustrate the boundaries of self-management and cross-functionality;
• Mapping and clearing essential pathways between various preconditions;
• Creating an accountability/autonomy matrix;
• Defining the risk and dangers involved with self-management;
• Illustrating how the participants like to work;
• Marking opportunities for improvement;
• Targeting rigid, counterproductive rules, systems, or guidelines;
• Fulfill tiny agreements and commitments together;
• Try various team-decision making techniques;
• Demonstrate a professional attitude in committing to decisions;
• Avoiding consensus traps;
• Sending powerful statements to the world beyond the Scrum Team;
• Designing an executable strategy on how to make the workplace more enjoyable.