Advice For Agile/Scrum Robot Development

[David Lame]

Originally Posted by philso

Unlike in a job situation, all the team members and most of the mentors are volunteers and there is no paycheck to keep them committed. It seems that it is mainly the passion that keeps people committed. Thus, one would probably have greater success applying management techniques appropriate to the environment we are in rather than trying to fit the people into a management technique from another environment that sounds attractive.

That's an interesting thought. Has anyone written books or otherwise published formal management method material for dealing with volunteer situations and unreliable teams? Most of the theory is of course oriented toward business situations where people have a relatively stable team and predictable outputs.

(Hmmm....off to google.....)