Producer: Esther Derby esther derby associates, inc.

Co-producer: Jukka Lindström Reaktor

As we framed this stage, thinking about Collaboration, Culture and Teams, one word came up over and over—entangled. We see that as the essential nature of this stage. We could simplify things by pulling the three concepts apart into three separate buckets, but it would be less useful, we think.

Collaboration is a way to accomplish interdependent goals. Collaboration is an approach to work a set of skills, an approach to conflict, a reflection of culture. Teams collaborate within one boundary; but releasing software requires collaboration across the organization, across companies, and across cultures.

Culture is an expression of group values in action. Culture shapes what people can talk about, and what’s undiscussable; what’s acceptable and what is not; what’s important, what’s valuable; who is important, who is valuable.

Teams are social units that exist within a culture, and work through collaboration. The presence of many cultures—national, professional, organizational—within a team will bring challenges and great possibilities for team work.

You see why “entangled” came up.

In this stage, we explore the interplay between Collaboration, Culture, and Teams, not as artificially separated concepts, but entangled, as they really are.

Questions this stage will attempt to answer:

• How do different levels of team self-responsibility affect individuals, culture, and results?
• How does collaboration between the team and other parts of the organization support or limit successful realization of goals?
• What aspects of culture (both organizational culture and the cultures people bring as individuals) affect successful collaboration and teamwork?
• What has worked to help support collaboration across cultural and organizational boundaries?
• What structures (physical, organizational, policies, contracts) have increased cross-organizational collaboration? How have they changed the nature of the relationship between the organizations?
• What will help teams develop robust collaboration when there are cultural differences?
• How can teams recognize favorable and limiting aspect of organizational culture and shape a new culture within the team?
• How can we help teams overcome narrow job descriptions and a culture of specialization and build robust cross-functional collaboration?

Reviewers

Bas Vodde Odd-e

Michael Sahota Agilitrix (self)

Lisa Moore Isráfíl Consulting Services Corporation

Don Gray self

Kris Blake SolutionsIQ

Pascal PRATMARTY Agitude

Rashina Hoda Victoria University of Wellington

Tamara Sulaiman Runyon CollabNet Inc.

Paul Nagy Nokia Siemens Networks

Sessions

Time	Title	Presenters	Type	Room
Monday 9:00 - 12:30	Fear-Driven Impediments	Ralph Miarka , Marc Bless	Workshop	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Monday 13:30 - 17:00	Managers vs. Agile Teams: Who Makes the Decisions?	Meghann Drury, Ken Power	Workshop	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Tuesday 13:30 - 15:00	Putting the Fun Back In Your Retrospectives	Ken Clyne, Eric Willeke	Tutorial	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Tuesday 11:00 - 12:00	Overcoming Self-organization Blocks	Andrea Provaglio	Talk	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Tuesday 15:30 - 17:00	Team Swarming--Why and How	George Dinwiddie	Workshop	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Tuesday 15:30 - 17:00	Refactor Your Wetware	Andrew Hunt	Tutorial	GA: Imperial Ballroom C
Wednesday 09:00 - 10:30	Creating an Environment by Making, Keeping, and Amending Agreements	Amr Elssamadisy	Tutorial	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00	Cultural Architecture	Raj Mudhar	Talk	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00	Creating a Team Culture to Navigate Conflict	Lyssa Adkins	Workshop	GA: Grand Ballroom Reception A
Wednesday 09:00 - 10:30	Distributed Scrum: Why some teams make it work well and others don't	Val Scott, William Rowden	Workshop	GA: Grand Ballroom Reception A
Wednesday 15:30 - 16:30	Building an Agile Culture in a Regulated Environment	Michael Meissner	Talk	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Wednesday 15:30 - 16:30	Tightening the Feedback Loop	Patrick Kua	Talk	GA: Grand Ballroom Reception A
Wednesday 15:30 - 16:30	Team Traps	Esther Derby	Talk	GA: Imperial Ballroom B
Wednesday 13:30-15:00	Refactoring Conversation Smells	Gil Broza, Luiz Claudio Parzianello	Tutorial	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Wednesday 13:30-15:00	Experiments: how does team structure affect behavior?	Sami Honkonen, Arto Eskelinen	Workshop	GA: Grand Ballroom Reception A
Wednesday 13:30-15:00	Routine Conflict Processing as a Cultural Norm	Jim McCarthy	Tutorial	GA: Imperial Ballroom B
Thursday 9:00-10:30	Creativity for Agile Teams	Roger Brown , Mark Levison	Talk	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Thursday 9:00-10:30	Building Great Teams	Don Gray	Tutorial	GA: Imperial Ballroom B
Thursday 11:00-12:00	Agile Office Spaces - Enabling Collaboration and Agility	Richard Cheng	Talk	GA: Grand Ballroom A
Thursday 11:00-12:00	Moving development and testing out of their Proterozoic silos	Steve Ropa, Joel Tosi	Workshop	GA: Grand Ballroom Reception A
Thursday 11:00-12:00	Experimentation: a Missing Agile Practice	Arlo Belshee	Talk	GA: Imperial Ballroom A
Thursday 13:30-15:00	The Culture of Agility	Pete Behrens	Tutorial	GA: Imperial Ballroom B