Conflicts for Good

Deepening Democracy in Agile Ecosystems

Alexey Krivitsky www.scrumguides.com

BLACK WHITE

DEMOCRACY The rule of majority

MINORITY Marginalized

PARTISANS Armored minority

THE LAW of DEEP DEMOCRACY

A GHOST ROLE Speak it up to emerge

A GROUP PROCESS A nice way to speak a ghost

Product Owner’s side Coach 1 Coach 2

Team’s side

A Sample Conflict

Geeks trying to “sell” XP to a Product Owner.