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Dynamic Reteaming

The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams, First Edition

Dynamic Reteaming shares real stories of how successful software companies have thrived through changing their teams as opposed to keeping them the same.  Learn to apply the five team change patterns: Isolation, One by One, Grow and Split, Merging and Switching. This is the 2019 first edition. The second 2020 edition is on Amazon.

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Team change will happen whether we like it or not. People will come and go from our teams. Our companies might double in size or even get acquired. We can catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation and the development of knowledge silos.  Dynamic Reteaming describes practices for effective reteaming as well as antipatterns.

In this book you'll learn how to integrate new people into an existing team, how to deal with the loss of team members, when to split a team, how to isolate teams for focused innovation, how to rotate team members for knowledge sharing, how to break through organizational stagnation and much more.

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Please note - this LeanPub version is the First Edition of Dynamic Reteaming. There is also an Audible of the first edition and paper and kindle versions on Amazon. There is a newer, second edition of this book published by O'Reilly that you can buy on AMAZON.

The first edition of this book has some additional stories that aren't in the second edition. The second edition has more complete treatment of the merging pattern, some new interviews not in the first version, a more extensive one-by-one pattern description with onboarding activities, as well as a more comprehensive "part 3" of the book which contains practical activities for dealing with the before, during and after reteaming.

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Heidi Helfand

Heidi Helfand is the author of "Dynamic Reteaming." With a deep passion for helping companies build outstanding products and high-performing teams, Heidi focuses on the human aspect of engineering. Over her 20-year career in the tech industry, she has held key roles at AppFolio, Procore, and Expertcity/GoToMeeting, gaining invaluable experience in guiding organizations through change and team scaling. Based in Southern California, Heidi enjoys quality time with her family and exploring the outdoors.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Praise for Dynamic Reteaming

Foreword by Diana Larsen

Introduction

Approach

  1. Audience
  2. Participants
  3. How to Use this Book

Part 1: What is Dynamic Reteaming?

  1. Dynamic Reteaming Ecocycle
  2. Basic Definitions
  3. The Social Dynamic of a Team
  4. Cadences of Dynamic Reteaming
  5. The Politics of Team Assignment and Change
  6. Reduce Risk and Encourage Sustainability

Part 2: Dynamic Reteaming Patterns & Stories

  1. One by One
  2. Grow and Split
  3. Isolation
  4. Merging
  5. Switching

Reteaming for Company Growth

  1. One by One Pattern
  2. Tactics for Onboarding New Team Members
  3. New Hires Can Shadow Mentors to Learn
  4. Hiring & Onboarding to Reduce Surprises Later
  5. Seeding Teams
  6. Bootcamps and Network Formation
  7. Grow and Split Pattern
  8. Guidelines for When Teams Grow and Split
  9. Grow and Split at the Tribe Level

Reteaming for the Work

  1. Isolation Pattern for Pivoting & Innovation
  2. Form Teams and Reteam Around the Work
  3. Reteam when “Overloaded” with Work
  4. Reteam to Reset the Work at the Tribe Level
  5. Organic Team Formation

Reteaming for Learning, Fulfillment, and Sustainability

  1. Switching Pattern
  2. Switching to Deliberately Spread Knowledge
  3. Switching Teams to Support a Feature
  4. Rotating Developers for Friendship & Pairing
  5. Switching for Personal Growth & Learning
  6. Empower People to Re-Role
  7. Reteaming for Short-Term Events

Reteaming for the Code

  1. Reteaming to Solve Emergencies
  2. Scaling the Isolation Pattern
  3. Reteaming to Refactor
  4. Reteaming to Share Production Support
  5. Reteaming for Cross-Team Infrastructure Work

Reteaming to Liberate

  1. Silenced People Could Be a Sign for a Reteam
  2. Splitting Teams with Unrelated Work
  3. Reteaming to Find a Better Fit
  4. When People Leave You Have a New Team

Antipatterns - What Gives Reteaming a Bad Reputation

  1. Reteaming To Spread “High Performance”
  2. The Percentage Antipattern
  3. The Priority Shuffle — Internal Threats to Teams
  4. Drawing Out the Layoffs
  5. Ambiguity around Layoffs
  6. Chaotic Takeovers & Impersonal Reteamings
  7. Not Dealing with Toxic Behavior
  8. Keeping the Toxic Team Together
  9. Hoarding Team Members

Constraints and Enablers

  1. Collaboration Dynamics
  2. Team Size & Implications for Reteaming
  3. Variables That Impact Dynamic Reteaming

Part 3: Face Reality & Get Good at Dynamic Reteaming

  1. Cultivate Community to Prime for Future Reteaming
  2. Reflect on Team Compositions and How to Shift
  3. New Teams Have Formed or Changed — Now What?
  4. Planning Larger Reteamings
  5. Whiteboard Reteaming to Enable Self Selection
  6. Team Choice Marketplace to Enable Self Selection

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

About the Author

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