"Your teams seem to be working ok -- they attend meetings, stories move across the board, most work gets done, eventually. But when a problem comes up, they point fingers or scatter like ants in a rainstorm. Why aren't they proactive? Why don't they have a sense of ownership? Why don't they collaborate and participate in decision-making? You told them they were self-organizing!!! ""Self-organization"" is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Agile. Research shows that most high-performing teams are self-organizing. Why, then, are high-performing teams so rare? This talk will help participants accomplish the following learning objectives: * Be able to distinguish between the four types of team (manager-led, self-managing, self-organizing, self-governing). * Identify what kind of team(s) they are working with. * Understand the types of authority teams need to have to be self-organizing. * Understand the types of support needed from managers, scrum masters, and others. * Identify behaviors they can model / exhibit to help their teams become more self-organizing. This is primarily a lecture format, interspersed with table or paired discussions. "