{"id":22,"date":"2013-07-21T16:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:39:45","slug":"it-gets-worse-before-it-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 21, 2013<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 462px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenmsmith.com\/images\/satir_graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevenmsmith.com\/images\/satir_graph.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satir Change Chart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia_Satir\">Virginia Satir<\/a> was a psychologist. She studied (among other things) how groups interact under the stress of change. The picture above is a typical Satir Change Diagram.<\/p>\n<p>When you give it a quick look, time is shown along the X-axis. You see the group\/team\/organization is operating at some level before some &#8220;foreign element&#8221; or &#8220;change agent&#8221; appears and changes the system, throwing the team into a state of chaos. The team flounders in chaos, but if they persist they can climb out the other side, presumably to some higher state.<\/p>\n<p>What does this imply for adopting scrum?<\/p>\n<p>There will be pain. It will get worse before it gets better.<br \/>\nCorollary &#8211; if you aren&#8217;t feeling the pain, you probably did something wrong (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craiglarman.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Larman%27s_Laws_of_Organizational_Behavior\">Larman&#8217;s 2nd Law<\/a>)<br \/>\nThe state on the other side better be worth all this pain!<br \/>\nWhile in the &#8220;chaos&#8221; state, the desire to retreat is large. The longer you flounder in chaos, the stronger the desire to backpedal.<br \/>\n&#8230; therefore, cross the chaos gap as quickly as possible.<br \/>\nAdopting incremental bits &amp; pieces guarantees maximizing the pain and minimizing the chances of getting across the painful chaos.<br \/>\nget help to pull your team(s) across<\/p>\n<p>Viewed another way, this is a restatement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development\">Tuckman<\/a> model (forming\/storming\/norming). Both are cyclical in the sense that this is a reoccurring pattern that teams will progress through as they grow in maturity.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Virginia Satir was noted for her work in <em>family<\/em> psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 21, 2013 Virginia Satir was a psychologist. She studied (among other things) how groups interact under the stress of change. The picture above is a typical Satir Change Diagram. When you give it a quick look, time is shown along the X-axis. You see the group\/team\/organization is operating at some level before some &#8220;foreign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}