In 2018 Alexandre Magno is going to publish the second book of Learning 3.0 series: "How Creative Teams/Groups Learn". These slides provide a first look at his perception on creative teams formation and swarming.

1. Creative Teams
and the power of collective intelligence
ALEXANDRE MAGNO
(@axmagno)
founder @LEARNING30co
managing partner &
enterprise agile coach @SCOPPHU
cst @SCRUMALLIANCE
alexandre.magno@scopphu.com

3. What is a CREATIVE team?

4. "Creative Worker is someone who, when
faced with a problem, raises alternatives
instead of limiting herself to know
solutions."

5. "Creative Worker Team is someone a group of workers
who, when faced with a problem, use collective
intelligence to raise alternatives instead of limiting
herself themselves to know solutions."
How Creative Teams Learn (out in 2018)

6. Collective intelligence (CI) is shared or group intelligence
that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and
competition of many individuals and appears in
consensus decision making.

7. To team or NOT to team?

8. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
process
(interaction, influence)
structure
(roles, norms, skills)
product
(result, output, outcome)
(Creative)
Team

9. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
1. Additive
2. Compensatory
3. Conjunctive
4. Disjunctive
5. Complementary

10. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
1. Additive
• All contributions add to performance;
• All group member perform individually
and the group product is the sum of the
members product;
• Some example?

12. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
1. Additive
• All contributions add to performance;
• All group member perform individually
and the group product is the sum of the
members product;
• HANDS-ON!

13. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
2. Compensatory
• Performance of one can off-set mistakes
of others;
• All group member estimate/perform some
future/current quantity/job, without any
group interaction, and the group product
is the mean of individual estimates/
performance;
• Some example?

15. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
2. Compensatory
• Performance of one can off-set mistakes
of others;
• All group member estimate/perform some
future/current quantity/job, without any
group interaction, and the group product
is the mean of individual estimates/
performance;
• HANDS-ON!

16. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
3. Conjunctive
• Operate at the level of the lowest
performer;
• All group member must succeed in order
for the group to succeed;
• Some example?
Conjunctive

18. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
3. Conjunctive
• Operate at the level of the lowest
performer;
• All group member must succeed in order
for the group to succeed;
• HANDS-ON!
Conjunctive

19. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
4. Disjunctive
• Operate at the level of the highest
performer;
• The group will succeed if a single group
member succeeds;
• Some example?
Disjunctive

21. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
4. Disjunctive
• Operate at the level of the highest
performer;
• The group will succeed if a single group
member succeeds;
• HANDS-ON!
Disjunctive

22. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
4. Complementary
• Group member need to combine different
abilities, skills, knowledge, or other
physical and cognitive resources in a
collective product that is more than any
group member could produce alone.
• The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts;
• Examples?
Complementary

24. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
4. Complementary
• Group member need to combine different
abilities, skills, knowledge, or other
physical and cognitive resources in a
collective product that is more than any
group member could produce alone.
• The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts;
• HANDS-ON!
Complementary

25. Swarming.
To team or NOT to team?

26. group of tasks
(problem, challenge, goal)
Additive Compensatory Conjunctive Disjunctive Complementary
no interaction some interaction a lot of interaction
maximising or optimising?
intellective or judgmental?
to team or not to team?
unitary or divisible?

27. maximising or optimising?
intellective or judgmental?
to team or not to team?
unitary or divisible?

28. Complementary
a lot of interaction
optimising
yes, to team
divisible
intellective judgmental

29. "The teams that make up our lives are created mostly
by luck, happenstance, or circumstance - but rarely by
design."
Team Genius
Rich Kalgaard and Michael S. Malone

30. Creative Teams
Designed as a team…
Self-organising as swarms…

32. And what about stable and
long-lived teams?

33. And what about stable and
long-lived teams?
Good…but let them to swarm
when it’s needed!

34. “Smart swarming is the ultimate skill of Creative Teams
and it’s what let them to outperform any ordinary team.”
How Creative Teams Learn by Alexandre Magno
The second Learning 3.0 book
coming 2018

35. THANK
YOU!
Creative Teams
and the power of collective intelligence
ALEXANDRE MAGNO
(@axmagno)
founder @LEARNING30co
managing partner &
enterprise agile coach @SCOPPHU
cst @SCRUMALLIANCE
alexandre.magno@scopphu.com