How does a self-organizing team make decisions together? Should they just talk until they agree? Should everyone get a vote? And when they vote, is every vote the same?

In group decision-making, there are many options for coming to a decision about something. Let’s take a moment to review and compare the most popular methods. Download fifteen decision-making methods (free sign-up needed.)

Scrum Day Colombia was a blast! The conference attendees took hundreds of pictures and selfies with me, often with people who seemed half my size. (The Dutch are the tallest people in the world, and with 1.92 cm, I’m above average even for a Dutch guy.)

I used my free time in Colombia to find standard decision-making methods for autonomous teams, and I turned those into a colorful set of pictures. I hope this will be useful for coaches, consultants, and managers who work with self-organizing teams. The images are available for download in the unFIX community (free sign-up required). Also, check out the two articles I wrote about power distribution and weighted voting with these decision-making techniques.

I am now enjoying six weeks of no events (including a two-week vacation). The first next event for me will be Agile Lean Europe 2022 in Toulouse at the end of August. My presence there will include a mini-workshop on unFIX, and I hope to reconnect with many friends from all over Europe and beyond. After two years of COVID and online meetups, I can hardly wait. It will be awesome.

In the meantime, I’m working hard to create an entirely new unFIX Foundation workshop experience for September. The first one (Munich) is nearly sold out already. So yeah … no pressure.

Jurgen

Calendar

unFIX: a look in the future (community meetup) (virtual) on 21-Jul-2022

Agile Lean Europe (Toulouse) on 24-Aug-2022

100th M3.0 Stammtisch (Munich) on 12-Sep-2022

unFIX Foundation (workshop) (Munich) on 13-Sep-2022

Agile Amsterdam (conference) (Amsterdam) on 22-Sep-2022

unFIXcon (Berlin) on 28-Sep-2022

unFIX Foundation (in Dutch language) (Delft) on 05-Oct-2022

Agile Tour Vilnius (Vilnius) on 13-Oct-2022

unFIX Foundation (workshop) (Warsaw) on 17-Oct-2022

Agile Austria (virtual) on 21-Oct-2022

unFIX Foundation (workshop) (Vienna) on 24-Oct-2022

Agile Slovenia (Ljubljana) on 27-Oct-2022

Scrum Day Europe (Amsterdam) on 01-Dec-2022

Tools4AgileTeams (Wiesbaden) on 02-Dec-2022