Team vs. Organization: exhibitionism or naturism?
When the organization looks at the the team, what does it see?
When the organization looks at the the team, what does it see?
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I’m betting that when you clicked on the link to this article you were wondering:
How is it possible to follow such a train of thought???
How? I’m making the link between the transparency value that the Scrum team lives by and how this transparency is seen by the organization.
Thus, by practicing Scrum’s transparency, the team is exposing itself. Nothing’s left to hide. The team’s progress, what’s left to do, how the team works, is everything going well… Truly everything!
The question I’m asking is the following one:
How this full exposure of the team seen by the organization?
I bet you've got where I was leading you…
Let’s have a look at the two possible cases.
Case 1: the team’s behavior is seen as exhibitionism
Would it be the case that the organization sees the team’s behavior as some perverted way of working, against nature, which cannot be understood and is morally questionable?
(though actually it’s quite nice to check out the team, it looks very fun to play with post-it and to do workshop in which everybody is enjoying himself)
The team working in full transparency is seen as exhibitionism by an organization with a different culture.
Case 2: the team is practicing naturism, like the rest of the organization
Would it be that the organization is not only understanding this way of working, but is also supporting and cheering on it? And, in the end, doing the same: the whole organization is exposing itself, too. Everybody shows up as who they actually are.
An organization practicing naturism: every team, every people, at every level, applying a policy of full transparency and hiding nothing.
The work of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches: undress
(figuratively speaking, of course)
I have previously described the Scrum Masters’ and Agile Coaches’ role as being gray hunters, people who presses where it hurts in order to prompt a genuine and lasting change, thus getting out of a gray zone where “it’s going badly but we’re keeping up with it.”
That f*%king gray zone…
Put a name on what’s wrong in our teams and organizationsmedium.com
To make it, the transparency promoted by Scrum is a superb tool. Transparency which along the way echoes to the Scrum values, in particular courage, openness and respect.
To expose the inner working, the vision, the progress and the achievements of the teams and organizations is one of the best ways to make clear how things really are. We could say : to undress everybody.
So I’m saying this loud and clear:
Let’s support naturism within organizations!
(figuratively speaking, of course)
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