Video: Four years of team self selection at Redgate Software | Øredev 2022

I spoke at the excellent Øredev conference in Malmo, Sweden, in November 2022 on Redgate’s journey with reteaming. I’ve been sharing the recording recently to explain why and how we do reteaming, both to new joiners at Redgate, but also external folks. It seems to have resonated with people and it’s probably the most engaging session I have given on the subject (I practiced a lot for this one), so sharing the link to the video here too:

The Session Abstract:

Traditional wisdom teaches us that long-lived, stable teams perform best, and that changing team membership is to be avoided as much as possible. At Redgate Software we’ve challenged this advice, believing it was better for our engineers and the overall organisation to deliberately change-up our teams every year. Our approach has been to give people a strong influence over which team they will join, encouraging them to move towards the work they find most engaging. Perhaps surprisingly, this has been hugely successful and has helped us create a development culture of engagement, resilience and opportunity. Chris will share how Redgate came to try self-selection team reorganisation in the first place. He’ll talk about how this has become an established annual event, the challenges and benefits, and how to try the approach in your organisation.