Four years of team self selection at Redgate Software
summary
Redgate runs an annual, employee-led re-teaming process that uses team charters and trios, an open two‑hour selection session plus one‑to‑one coaching, and a puzzle‑fitting leadership panel to form product teams. The claim is concrete: year one 33% moved first year and leadership meets ~77% of first preferences and ~97–98% of top three choices across years. Re-teaming takes about 15 working days to switch, slightly nudges lead time and deploy frequency but recovers quickly, spreads practices, and improves hiring and retention.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 5:57The received wisdom of stable teams
- 7:26Tuckman's model of team development
- 10:34The potential downside of stable teams
- 13:07How? The team assignment freedom continuum
- 20:52Why deliberately change-up our teams?
- 33:03Did software delivery performance suffer? No.
- 34:33What we've seen after 4 years of reteaming
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