03 Are self-organizing teams killing your business? (aka "agile on training wheels")

The Innovation Engineer Podcast

Do you need strict leadership and hierarchy? Agile is right, everything else is wrong. Are self-organizing teams killing your business? That's a very controversial question. I heard Tarek is even having hard discussions about this with his wife!

There is a lot of esoteric wrong-value dogmatism in our industry. And that's what we are discussing in today's episode. Management said we need to do this, so grab your nerdiest mug, fill it with the beverage of your choice and enjoy!

Hosted by two former CTOs who decided to stay hands-on, both veterans of the industry with decades of experience as engineers. You can expect many stories from current and past ventures. Meet Innovation Engineer Tarek Madany Mamlouk and Principal Engineer Sebastian "Waschi" Waschnick.

Show Notes

0:00 Intro
1:49 Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters
2:37 Team Maturity
3:04 An unpopular Opinion
4:09 This is not a Team
4:44 My favorite CTO
5:21 The Fox News of Germany
7:29 Self-Organization needs Leadership
10:08 Put your Ego aside
10:50 This is not Anarchy
11:07 You can't always choose
11:19 There might be Hierarchy
11:59 Abstract Goals
12:38 Alignment
13:49 Micro-Management
15:37 I hate Scrum?
16:07 Agile is about Communication
17:09 Domain Driven Design
17:34 Keep it Simple
18:52 OKR
20:51 Making Money is the Goal by Law
21:49 Because Management says so
22:15 Scrum is the Training Wheels of Agile
23:01 Forget Story Points
25:10 Bottleneck PO
26:04 Double Leadership
28:09 Accountability
28:27 Radical Candor
29:43 The Friend Trap
30:37 Growing into the Culture
31:22 Fire the whole Company?
32:23 Spotify Model
33:33 Becoming part of the problem
34:14 Working like Self-Driving Cars
36:29 Missing Alignment in a Start-Up
37:54 I believe in Self-Organizing Teams
38:32 A very Senior Thing to do
40:16 Outro

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