Dysfunctions of team

[Max Pendyschtschuk]

Hi,

I read the book "Death by meeting" by Patrick Lencioni, as I wrote in
previous mail, the book is very good and interesting. Here I want to
ask whether anybody read "...Dysfunctions of team..." by the same
author ("Five Disfunctions of team", "Overcoming Disfunctions of team"
etc. - and by the way, is here big differences between those books or
it is some kind of "next edition"). Maybe you know something about
psychology aspects of team building... I have found in internet-shop
russion edition of "Team playears: be your best... and beyond", but
still think about "to buy or not to buy" :).

Maybe you can advice something interesting about "team" ("Peopleware"
by Tom DeMarco I have read).

Thanks in advance,
Maxym

[krivitsky]

Hi Max,

I think each book on agile is very much about people involved in the
project - the teams.
I am very much enjoying Alistair Cockburn's 2nd edition of Agile
Software Development: The Cooperative Game.
http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Software-Development-Cooperative-Game/dp/0321482751/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-4921890-3092931?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179526845&sr=8-2

It is about building agile methodology but covers lots of interesting
topics on individual and team psychology.

Also you may find interesting "the new thing" called Holacracy - it is
a way of building agile enterprises by means of interdependent teams
with members from different company's levels. See holacracy.org for
more info.

// Alexey

[Max Pendyschtschuk]

Hello Alex,

 

Thanks for information. Esther Derby (co-author of "Agile Retrospective: Making Good Team Great") have recommended me the following book:

 

"Collaboration Explained:  Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders" from the same series "The Agile Software Development Series".

http://www.amazon.com/Collaboration-Explained-Facilitation-Software-Development/dp/0321268776

 

All read about this book shows, that this one is really good stuff too.

krivitsky <alexeyk...@gmail.com> schrieb:

Hi Max,

I think each book on agile is very much about people involved in the
project - the teams.
I am very much enjoying Alistair Cockburn's 2nd edition of Agile
Software Development: The Cooperative Game.
http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Software-Development-Cooperative-Game/dp/0321482751/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-4921890-3092931?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179526845&sr=8-2

It is about building agile methodology but covers lots of interesting
topics on individual and team psychology.

Also you may find interesting "the new thing" called Holacracy - it is
a way of building agile enterprises by means of interdependent teams
with members from different company's levels. See holacracy.org for
more info.

// Alexey

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[krivitsky]

a good example of a dysfunctional team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3htbxIkzzM
lol

On May 19, 10:38 am, Max Pendyschtschuk <gotischer...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> Thanks for information. Esther Derby (co-author of "Agile Retrospective: Making Good Team Great") have recommended me the following book:
>
> "Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders" from the same series "The Agile Software Development Series".

> http://www.amazon.com/Collaboration-Explained-Facilitation-Software-D...

>
> All read about this book shows, that this one is really good stuff too.
>

> krivitsky <alexeykrivit...@gmail.com> schrieb:

>
> Hi Max,
>
> I think each book on agile is very much about people involved in the
> project - the teams.
> I am very much enjoying Alistair Cockburn's 2nd edition of Agile

> Software Development: The Cooperative Game.http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Software-Development-Cooperative-Game/dp/...

>
> It is about building agile methodology but covers lots of interesting
> topics on individual and team psychology.
>
> Also you may find interesting "the new thing" called Holacracy - it is
> a way of building agile enterprises by means of interdependent teams
> with members from different company's levels. See holacracy.org for
> more info.
>
> // Alexey
>

> ---------------------------------

[Serhiy Yevtushenko]

Concerning meetings:

Five Dysfunctions of team is a book in the novel style, (like "|eath by Meeting"), concerned with dysfunctional teams.
The five dysfunctions model is available from the site of Patrick Lencioni http://www.tablegroup.com/, and I have attached it to this message/

Also there is a webinar dedicated to this topic htttp://www.tablegroup.com/dysfunctions/webinar/,
zip file of which can be downloaded.

The second book  (Overcoming ...) has more details about overcoming dysfunctions of team.

I would also add the following books concerning meetings
Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great (Esther Derby and Diana Larsen) - concerning retrospectives

Also by the Scrum Master  course (and also by Diana Larsen) the following book is recommended:
The Art of Focused Conversation:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Focused-Conversation-Access-Workplace/dp/0865714169

And finally, Jerry Weinberg recomends following books about meetings
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Meetings-Work-Michael-Doyle/dp/0515090484

It was reviewed by Brian Marick here:
http://www.testing.com/writings/reviews/doyle-meetings.html

2007/5/20, krivitsky <alexeyk...@gmail.com>:

[Alexey Krivitsky]

Woah, that's gonna keep me busy during this week :)

Thanks, Serhiy.
// Alexey