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

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

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

4. Management and the Team Authority
Hackman’s authority matrix

5. 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.

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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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