The Chinese often say one sentence: people are responsible; otherwise, no one is responsible. Agile teams advocate self-organizing teams and are responsible for them. So is the agile team unattended? I raised this question in the scrum alliance, Inc. Group on LinkedIn. Below are some answers to this question:
- From Traditional "command-control" management to agile, it should first be a conceptual change. This is very difficult. The agile team does not have "I", or "I", but "we ". Both success and failure are "we ". -- Tushar Jain
- Who is responsible for the loss of the Brazilian football team to the German team? Who is responsible for winning the German championship? Is it the score team member? If only one person is accused or rewarded, no team exists. -- Alan dayley
- There are always people who feel they should blame others. In fact, if someone is accused, in many cases, we will attribute our mistakes to this person's mistakes.
When the problem arises, it is not a fault. A review is required because teams responsible for the problem or solution can identify and eliminate the root cause of the problem. The reason we need to stand up is that we need to be able to identify problems as early as possible and make sure everyone is aware of what is happening. A team can be turbulent, stable, and productive. In this process, how many failures do you think will occur, including at the project level? Well, I hope there are many. I hope my team will fail as soon as possible and then solve them quickly.
In my organization, when a failure occurs or even a serious failure occurs, the entire team is responsible and tries to eliminate it together when it occurs again in the future. Even at the execution level, you have a sense of team ownership. When a problem is found, everyone is absolutely responsible. To this end, team members are held accountable for each other and themselves. The essence of a self-managed Team is responsibility and ownership. (The translation of this sentence seems a little different and is asking for advice from experts. The original article is as follows: And to that end, the team members themselves hold each other accountable, and themselves. The essence of a Self Directed team is accountability and ownership .)
Agility is not free to all. Agility is not transparent, so agility certainly does not lack a sense of responsibility. -- Jeremy Wilson
From these answers, we often emphasize responsibility to people, which sometimes means rewards and punishments to people. If the project fails and we blame someone for it, should all the rewards be classified as one if it succeeds? As Alan dayley said, there would be no team.
In other words, it is precisely because of the agility and transparency that all problems are exposed. In this case, failure occurs, which means not only the responsibility of the team, but also the responsibilities of all stakeholders and participants, all should be responsible. Otherwise, why didn't everyone find this problem? Therefore, openness and transparency are the cornerstone of agile success (and the cornerstone of our Party's successful governance ).
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Who is responsible for the agile team?