What is self organization and how you can create self organizing teams. Learn it from the nature because its all about self organization. What are the principles of Self organization in context of agile team. Factors necessary for self organized team. Self organization is not optional.

1. What is
Self Organized
Team
BY ADNAN AZIZ

2. Agenda
 What is self organization
 Self organization in nature
 Teams without self organization
 Self organization principles in agile
 Factors necessary for self organized team
 Self organization is not optional

3. What is Self Organization

4. Self-organization is a process of attraction and
repulsion in which the internal organization of a
system, normally an open system, increases in
complexity without being guided or managed by
an outside source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_organization

5. Self Organization in
Nature

6. Open Systems
Usually self organized system contains
Many agents
Many interactions
Decentralization
Simple rules

7. Plants

8. Humans
 Inspect and adapt mechanism is
in our DNA

9. Teams without Self
Organization

10. Team follows the plan
Changes need approval
Specialization is preferred
Roles are defined
Lack of innovation

11. Self Organization
Principles in Agile

12. Support the people
Build projects around
motivated individuals. Give
them support they need and
trust them to get the job.

13. Regular Reflection
At regular interval team
reflects how to become
more effective.

14. Emergent Design
The best architecture
requirements and designs
come from self organizing
teams.

15. High Collaboration
Business people and
developers must work
together daily.

16. Satisfy the customer
Satisfy the customer through
early and continues delivery
of software.

17. Factors Necessary
for Self Organized
Team

18. Understand the vision

19. Inspect and adapt

20. Its OK to make a mistake

21. Freedom to try new things

22. Call out the wrong behavior

23. Simple rules

24. Work beyond specialty

25. Incremental delivery of
working software

26. Continues learning of new
skills

27. Shared success and
shared failure culture

28. Developers
 My tasks your tasks (Not recommended)
 Do anything necessary to help the team
 Developers can program, test, analyze
problems and deploy the software

29. Testers
 Just tell me what to test (Not recommended)
 Collaborate with programmers and
customers
 Have more frequent and mindful
conversations to understand customer needs

30. Leaders
 Everything must go by me (Not recommended)
 Help team to understand the motivation behind their
project
 Be a impediment remover
 Facilitate steps that will help team radiate information
 Empower team to make a decision
 Help foster creativity

31. Self Organization is
Not Optional

32. Reasons to be self organized team
 Fulfill internal business demands
 Competitive business environment demands
innovation
 Keeps you sync with business continuity plan

33. Care to share your experience?
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