to find a stable state that included TDD. Practicing TDD was suddenly very easy.
I think the message is clear: when teams seem to be stuck in their (bad) behavior, try to change the environment, not the team. There’s a good chance the behavior will then change all by itself.
This article is an adaptation from a text out of the book “Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders,” by Jurgen Appelo. The book will be published by Addison-Wesley, in Mike Cohn’s Signature Series, and will be available in book stores near the end of 2010.
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References
Waldrop, M. Complexity. New York: Simon amp; Schuster, 1992.
Lewin, Roger. Complexity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Gleick, James. Chaos. Harmondsworth Eng.: Penguin, 1987.
Arrow, Holly et.al. Small Groups as Complex Systems . Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2000.
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About the author
Jurgen Appelo is a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and … Dutch guy.
Since 2008 Jurgen writes a popular blog at www.noop.nl, which deals with development management, software engineering, business improvement, personal development, and complexity theory. He is the author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders , which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations. He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at business seminars and conferences around the world.
