We’ve Done It, and So Can You

Our first trial self-selection event was in October 2013 at Trade Me, one of New Zealand’s biggest ecommerce providers. Since then we’ve run the largest self-selection process we know of and repeated the process many times across multiple locations. Many more companies have since used our ideas and processes to run self-selection events across the world.

In this book we share a case study of how we used self-selection to decide on the structure and composition of twenty-two new agile teams across Trade Me’s technology department—a process that involved more than 150 people. We also demonstrate and explain a repeatable process for facilitating a self-selection event at scale.

Our aim is to convince you that self-selection is not only valid but also highly rewarding and can be a successful and positive approach for all kinds of organizations.