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In those years where the combined projects exceed what would be reasonable, the CEO simply asks teams to sit together and to come back to him with a revised plan. Representatives from each team come together and put all the plans on a table. They look at what is most important and what might be deferred in everyone’s plans. In one or two meetings,

The culmination of the define phase is often some kind of review where the team gets the go-ahead for the work and people are assigned to the team.

Autonomous teams should work toward assigned customer value outcomes, rather than being assigned tasks. What to work on is, generally, given to the team through the prioritization of initiatives in the LVT and the backlog. The team, which should include a product person, collaboratively prioritizes what it will work on during the next iteration to

Fundamentally, autonomous teams have both the authority and the accountability to deliver an outcome-oriented work product—whether that is a software feature (code) or a prioritized portfolio that implements a goal.

recommend that all issues and proposed solutions be presented at the weekly team meeting. Allow five minutes of discussion for each proposed solution. If, in that time, consensus is reached, great. The solution is turned into a next action with a directly responsible individual (DRI) and due date. If not, do not spend more time talking about the is

In Teal Organizations, people have roles, which come with clear areas of responsibility, but no turfs. No part of the organization belongs to anybody.

structured agendas, then the employee should set the agenda. A good practice is to have the employee send you the agenda in advance.

It’s not as hard as you think.… Competition among the three fleets for the task of intercepting the Trisolaran probe has turned into bickering, but a preliminary agreement was hammered out by the Joint Conference yesterday: Each fleet’s ships will assemble back at base. A special committee will supervise the execution of the maneuver to avoid any s