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title: Self Organization
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## Self Organization
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In order to maintain high dynamics and agility of developed projects, all team members should mindfully share responsibility for product that is being developed.
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Vertically oriented organisational structures proved themself to be slow and inflexible with many levels of decision making. If a team wants to act fast and react dynamically to constantly changing environment, the organisational structure needs to be flat with members feeling strongly responsible for their input into the project.
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It does not mean that management is obsolete process in an agile self-organised team. It just has a different characteristic than in traditional approach (especially in large organisations, but not only), proving to be more effective when more supportive and advisory than despotic and direct.
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Foundation of self-organisation is trust and commitment of team's members.
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Scrum teams are said to be self organising. This means that the work done and generally the way it is done is left up to the team to decide - they are
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empowered by their managers to guide themselves in the ways that makes them most effective. The members of the team (Delivery Team, Product Owner, and
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Scrum Master) regularly inspect their behaviors to continuously improve.
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During Sprint Planning the team will look at the product backlog (which will have been prioritised by the product owner) and decide which stories they
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will work on in the upcoming sprint and the tasks which will need completing to mark the story as Done. The team will estimate a score or size for the
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story to denote effort.
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During a sprint it is up to the members of the team to pick up sprint backlog stories to work on, generally they will pick ones they think they can
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achieve. Due to it being a self organising team, there should be no assigning a task to a team member by someone else.
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#### More Information:
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- Scrum.org on [Scrum Promoting Self Organization](https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/how-does-scrum-promote-self-organization)
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- Scrum.org on [Scrum Roles Promoting Self Organization](https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/how-do-3-scrum-roles-promote-self-organization)
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- Scrum Alliance on [What and How of Self Organization](https://scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2013/january/self-organizing-teams-what-and-how)
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