Not
only individuals and interactions, but also a community of professionals
–
Manifesto for Software
Craftsmanship.
“Team” has recently become a dogma. Accelerated improvement and the avoidance of wasting time,
resources and talents can only be achieved within a community, where both teams
and teams of teams are effective. The
evidence for this comes from the evolution of human civilization. After lengthy prehistory, where the main organizational form was the team, the transition to
“history” was triggered by the emergence of the first human communities. The history
of mankind is the direct result of how humans find ways to share experience
and knowledge within various forms of communities.
A better way to accelerate improvement and avoid waste in
any profession is to go beyond teams and make individuals and teams collaborate
across various communities.
Conditions and principles for creating and evolving
a community of professionals:
Critical mass of potential skills
Knowledge and experience sharing
Active collaboration between individuals
Active collaboration between and across teams
Talents valorization: promote and connect “rare ideas”
Knowledge persistence
Evolving stability
Promoting valuable ideas
Different kinds of communities
Emergence: Creating new values, new practices and new communities
Corollary
The axe of progress is: individual, team, teams of teams, communities
See next - Principles for a community of professionals - II
No comments:
Post a Comment