Signing Up's Interactions with Other Practices
Signing Up has a close relationship with teamwork (Chapter 12). People sign up for a team, and it's hard to have a team in which half the people are signed up and half are not. Usually, if the Signing Up practice is going to work, everyone on the team needs to be signed up.
You can expect teams that are signed up to work some Voluntary Overtime (Chapter 43). In exchange, the team will expect the organization to support their efforts, at least in the form of providing them with a productive work environment (Chapter 30). The team might also resist more active, hands-on management practices such as Miniature Milestones (Chapter 27). You'll probably have to use commitment-based scheduling (Commitment-Based ...
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