Название: Dynamic Reteaming: The Art & Wisdom of Changing Teams, 2nd Edition (Early Release)
Автор: Heidi Helfand
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2020
Страниц: 161
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (conv), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. Multiple people join the company. It feels different. When a company goes through hard times, it could be that many people are dismissed. This is all Dynamic Reteaming. It is all part of the general concept of team change. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares practices for reteaming effectively. CTOs and team managers will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos.

Based on research into several well-known software companies, the patterns in this book will help you integrate new people into an existing team, manage a team that’s lost members, or deal with unexpected change. You’ll learn when to split a team, how to isolate teams for focused innovation, how to rotate team members for knowledge sharing, how to break through organizational apathy, and much more.

This is a book about Dynamic Reteaming a.k.a. team change. Team change is real, and this book proves it. It feels like I’m stating the obvious; however, there is a bias in the software industry towards having stable teams. That message has been so strong it’s as if you might feel like you’re doing it wrong if you change up your teams deliberately. You might read quotes like, “Teams with stable membership perform better,” (Hackman), or you might try to heed advice like, “Keep your teams the same for predictability.” (Scrum PLoP, N.D.) For many of us, however, team stability is more like a pipe dream. Our teams are more like moving targets than unchanging entities. It’s time that we acknowledge that team change is real and that we share stories and ideas for how to not only get good at it, but dominate it — the essence of this book.

You’ll learn:

Five patterns of dynamic reteaming: One by One, Grow and Split, Isolation, Merging, and Switching
Methods for effectively onboarding new members
How to reinvigorate your department or company by changing team compositions
Why companies reteam and reorganize, through real-world stories and examples
How reteaming or nomading can help a mature organization innovate quickly

This book is for people that make decisions about how teams are formed and changed in their companies or for companies with whom they consult. When writing this book, I imagined that I was speaking to people with titles like vice president of engineering, chief executive officer, founder, chief technology officer, director, manager, or consultant. This book is also for the many people who influence reteaming decisions in their companies such as software engineers, quality assurance engineers, user experience engineers, ScrumMasters, and coaches.