As agilists, we all hear a lot about self-organizing teams. I'm pretty sure I have already aired several, probably conflicting, opinions about self-organizing teams, like " someone else should assign people to the teams and decide what they should do, and THEN they should self-organize ," but today I would like to talk about something even more fundamental: the self-organizing self. Are you fully able to function on your own behalf, or even on the team's behalf, at times when you don't have a scrum master acting as a sort of personal time assistant? Do you procrastinate? Are you distracted? Do you run out of money? Do you lose things? Let's assume you've tackled work--how well-armed are you for life? Helpful advice from http://xkcd.com/337/ I would like to think that most of you are more personally organized than I am, and you probably are, but for those of you who need a little help, as I do, there are some free or cheap tech...
Non-zealot reflections on real life agile leadership, management and analysis practices.