My Experiences

Agile talks about self organizing teams at the heart of it. I have always found this to be a great characteristics of agile but achieving it is easier said than done. For teams / organisations who may be new to Agile and just transitioning to same from a traditional project management structure this may be not so easy to formulate. The structure where manager typically has lot of power / control to a one where the team itself totally control their plans is a journey to make. Teams who have mode to agile already are also seen at times struggling to let go off old styles. While commune but following are indeed things to do achieve self organising teams: Providing the right guidance to make sure teams understand the true concept of self organizing Building the required trust on team and empowering them to deliver – Letting team take ownership of execution plan Build transparency and strive for highest level of team collaboration Build appetite for failures and missed commit