I have to quote this tweet from Jeff
Sutherland on March 13 :
Learning to negotiate was a vast improvement
over war. #Collaboration
is a vast improvement over negotiation.
These are such golden words from the
expert. If learning to collaborate is a challenge, its even more challenging to
trust the people who collaborate and to invest in a system which rewards the
collaborators.
Its people who make the scrum work and
scrum is about empowering them systematically and allow them to progressively own
accountability for their actions and for the value created.
It’s a open challenge to every one –
for the team, to collaborate more and become more accountable for each other
and for value. For the scrum master, to remove impediments from the system which
prevent them to collaborate more. For the management to identify collaborators /
team value adders over selfish individuals and reward their behavior. For the
management to identify and empower the people who are most likely to be
gatekeepers and angels for maintaining such a system.
As system, system, system is what its
all about and there is no word else to describe it. It’s a paradox that many
times the people who are the angels for encouraging such a system are the ones
who end up doing damage unconsciously.
