2. 2
They are self-organizing.
No one (not even the Scrum Master)
tells the Development Team
how to turn Product Backlog
into Increments of potentially releasable functionality;
Scrum Teams are self-organizing
and cross-functional.
Self-organizing teams choose how best
to accomplish their work,
rather than being directed by others outside the team
Coaching the Development Team in self-organization
and cross-functionality;
(how Scrum Master serves the Development Team)
The Development Team self-organizes
to undertake the work
in the Sprint Backlog…
By the end of the Sprint Planning,
the Development Team should be able
to explain to the Product Owner and Scrum Master how
it intends to work as a self-organizing team to
accomplish the Sprint Goal and create the anticipated
Increment.
Development Team should understand how it intends to
work together as a self-organizing team to accomplish
the Sprint Goal
Self-organization in Scrum Guide
3. 3
Self-organization can only be enabled,
not enforced
We need „Enablers” - key elements of
which self-organization is composed,
factors which are enabling
and strengthening it
Information: where we are going, where we are, what difference are we making, why it is important, what it will look like when we get there?
Goals: works when people in the system use it to evaluate their actions. Every Day. All the time. Should not be connected directly with rewards. They are allowed to change to give a sense of direction. It is not so easy as SMART approach. Example: we will beat our competitors, how you measure that? There should be a mix of goals, also inspired goals are needed. ORG GOALS, TEAM AUTONOMOUS GOALS
Purpose: together with goals are vey close related to each other. If goals are wishes to achieve, than purpose is the reason why we want to achieve those goals. Purpose which is all about direction, is something that influences goals. Purpose give a meaning of our actions. DRIVE.
Build projects around motivated individuals.
Empowerment – is implementing distributed control by delegating authority. Where Authority itself is a power to take decisions and responsibility – state of being accountable for any obligation. Authority and responsibility are closely related and they must go hand in hand.
Safe environment - need time to form and perform, support of risk taking, not blaming, respect, if we are empowering we are empowering! Feedback – self-organizaing teams need to tune and adjust its behavior at regular intervals.
It is also about all needed resources to be cross-functional.
However Empowerment is not a binary choice: true false. Someone is empowered or not. Empowerment needs skills. People need to learn about how to be empowered. To help them in that we can implement different levels of authority…
Tell: You make decisions and announce them to your people. (This is actually not delegation at all.)
Sell: You make decisions, but you try to “sell” your idea to your team. It is delegation by informing your people of your motivation.
Consult: You invite and weigh input from workers. It is delegation by consulting your people before coming to a decision.
Agree: You invite workers to join in a discussion and to reach consensus as a group. Your voice is equal to the others.
Advise: You attempt to influence workers by giving them advice, but you leave it up to them to decide what to do with your opinion.
Inquire: You let the team decide. And afterwards you inquire about their motivations, or you ask that they actively keep you informed.
Delegate: You leave it entirely up to the team to deal with the matter, and you don’t even need to know which decisions they make.
When we empower people we have to give them clear boundaries of their authority.
We put so much attention into giving the authority that we are afraid of setting boundaries.
I will use Donald Reinertsen metaphor here…
In this situation people have to find out by trial an error what are the boundaries. He call this process: „invisible electric fences”. If eople hit this fences repeatly, it may kill their motivation.
Boundaries protect self-organization,
Boundaries enables creativity- Haiku.