Developing Self Organizing Teams Nilesh Kulkarni Enterprise Agile Coach Edgeverve Systems Limited

“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” 1 out of 12 agile principles from agile manifesto

Do we need self-organizing teams? Source - Brenda Zimmerman

Management and the Team Authority Hackman’s authority matrix

Why do we need Self-organizing teams Quickly respond to change Frequent planning and adjustments Achieve better results Deliver more business value More collaboration Learn faster Motivated team Team performance is not the sum of its parts but the product of their interaction.

How Management can Support Support Emergent behavior vs predefined behavior Management has control What to do – management How to do – team Management removes impediments

Leading a Self-Organizing team Focus on Visualization Communicate more outwards Protect the team from outside interference Provide servant Leadership Be a great facilitator Create environment where knowledge workers can think, decide and act Remove impediments Spend more time on strategic thinking How to optimize whole system

Steps for leaders to build a self organizing team Initiate discussions Add checkpoints Utilize the team talent No going back old way Leader becomes facilitator In times of failure, review what, not Who Measure the effectiveness Sustain the change

Rebuilding the self-organizing team New member learns from existing members Spend more efforts on mentoring new team members There may be some impact on team output Let the team rebuild itself but be available as a coach/mentor

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