Dynamic Reteaming, 2nd Edition

Foreword by John Cutler

I first met Heidi while working at AppFolio, a company Heidi mentions in this book. Soon after I joined the team, I began to hang out with Heidi, Paul, and the other coaches. There was something about their work that I found very interesting and inspiring—and challenging, especially during a period of rapid growth.

Behind the office, near the train tracks, was an out-and-back walking path. Team members often did one-on-ones on this path, and while Heidi wasn’t on my immediate team, she was always willing to lend an ear. Heidi’s many superpowers—her curiosity, patience, storytelling, and deep care for the humans she worked with—were in full effect. You’d need to be a Star Trek: The Next Generation fan to get this, but picture ship counselor and empath Deanna Troi as a coach at a SoCal tech company. That’s Heidi.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but interacting with that group of coaches, and Heidi in particular, would have a profound impact on my career. They encouraged me to start speaking and writing. They showed me that it was OK to nerd out about certain things like team health and what Heidi would later describe as dynamic reteaming. They inspired me.

It was a year or two later that Heidi started telling me about this book project. In 2016, the seeds of Dynamic Reteaming appeared as an AppFolio experience report for Agile2016. Heidi didn’t stop there. You could tell she had found her groove. She was mining her amazing network, deep in research mode, ...