Tuckman Was Wrong
- 4. @WeAreCTO2 / @DocOnDev
– Scrum PLoP Stable Teams Pattern
“Keep teams stable and avoid shuffling people around
between teams. Stable teams tend to get to know their
capacity, which makes it possible for the business to
have some predictability.”
- 25. @WeAreCTO2 / @DocOnDev
because resources
HoursSpent
Active Project Count
1 2 3 4 5
32
24
16
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
16
24
32
Active Work
Other Tasks
Context Switching
- 37. @WeAreCTO2 / @DocOnDev
“…different areas of code are going to need different
skill-sets at different times, and for that reason we need
[people] to go and work on those particular areas at
different times… None of this is basically static. It’s very
fluid. And if you have the ability to reteam, then you
are able to go do this sort of thing consistently.”
– Michael Feathers
- 38. @WeAreCTO2 / @DocOnDev
“None of this is basically static. It’s very
fluid. And if you have the ability to
reteam, then you are able to go do this
sort of thing consistently.”
– Michael Feathers
- 43. #Agile2016 / #CultureACED / @DocOnDev
four factors
l e a d t o b e t t e r t e a m
performance & collective
satisfaction… AUTONOMY
CONNECTION
EXCELLENCE
DIVERSITY
- 44. #Agile2016 / #CultureACED / @DocOnDev
AUTONOMY
CONNECTION
EXCELLENCE
DIVERSITY
four factors
lead to better
team performance
& c o l l e c t i v e
satisfaction…
- 53. @WeAreCTO2 / @DocOnDev
• Stable Teams Pattern - https://sites.google.com/a/
scrumplop.org/published-patterns/product-
organization-pattern-language/development-team/
stable-teams
• Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development - https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development
• Using the Stages of Team Development - http://
hrweb.mit.edu/learning-development/learning-topics/
teams/articles/stages-development
• Stages of Small-Group Development Revisited - http://
www.staff.science.uu.nl/~daeme101/
Stages%20of%20Small-
Group%20Development%20Revisted.pdf
• Theories and Models of Group Development - https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_development
• DAU Model of Team Development - http://
www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a493549.pdf
• Dynamic Reteaming: How We Thrive by Rebuilding
Teams - https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/
uploads/2016/07/H.Helfand.Dynamic-Reteaming-
How-We-Thrive-by-Rebuilding-Teams.pdf
• Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking by
Gerald Weinberg - http://amzn.to/2d7SIZ9
• Valve Handbook - http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/
1074301/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
• Spotify Culture Video - https://labs.spotify.com/
2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/
• Squads / Chapters / Guilds - http://nomad8.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/02/Squads-Chapters-Guilds-in-
one-page.graffle.pdf