jay padinjaredath - preparing to be wrong » jeff http://blog.jayanthan.com jay padinjaredath's blog Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:33:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Jeff Sutherland at Google on Sep 4th http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/09/jeff-sutherland-at-google-on-sep-4th/ http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/09/jeff-sutherland-at-google-on-sep-4th/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:17:12 +0000 Jay Padinjaredath http://blog.jayanthan.com/?p=12 Jeff Sutherland gave a talk at google yesterday. The title “Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team” was alluring. The talk failed to live up to the title. In his slides he failed to talk about self-organizing and its implications. He stuck to an account of how Scrum was implemented at myspace by Scott Downey.

The three themes he spoke about:

1. Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams.
2. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise known as the choice uncertainty principle.
3. Punctuated equilibrium - how software systems evolve.

The first one "shock therapy" was interesting but not new. The second and third was to me addition of unnecessary jargon into already overloaded profession. Google should have the video up soon, I will update this page as soon as I see it. 

I would have like to have seen something more about self-organizing teams.
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