Filed under: Jurgen Appelo

Nice Presentation: Guide to Self-Organization

This is again an excellent presentation by Jurgen Appelo. I have put up a presentation from him about "The Zen of Scrum" and on "Agile Project Management" before. He is a great source of inspiration.

This is his brand new presentation on self-organizing teams. Not only is this presentation nicely designed, it also holds some great thoughts on why self-organizing teams make sense, the levels of self organization and why communication is important.

This is a must see for everyone who manages or is involved in teams and wants to improve the teams' productivity and motivation.

Agile Project Management - Interesting Presentation from the “Agile Eastern Europe Conference”

Jurgen Apello gave an interesting presentation about agile project management at the “Agile Eastern Europe Conference” in Kiev. His approach is a mixture of complexity theory, agile best practices, some psychology and "soft skills”.

His 12 laws of software development are: 

- Motivate People
- Empower Teams
- Align Results
- Optimize Communication
- Enforce Discipline
- Restrain Growth
- Reduce Risk
- Measure Performance
- Evaluate Feedback
- Acquire Knowledge
- Manage Uncertainty
- Evolve Practices

Those are not only valid for software development projects but for all projects with creative teams. His presentation is good, so check it out.