Comments on: Guiding a Self Organising Team into Efficiency http://wildfalcon.com/archives/2009/10/23/guiding-a-self-organising-team-into-effeciency/ Laurie Young: Scrum Master, Dancer, Photographer and Entrepreneur Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bartosz Blimke http://wildfalcon.com/archives/2009/10/23/guiding-a-self-organising-team-into-effeciency/comment-page-1/#comment-27429 Bartosz Blimke Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:14:54 +0000 http://wildfalcon.com/?p=268#comment-27429 I guess, self-organized teams also require specific kind of people, with specific character, ambitions and skills. At least some people working together can form good self-organised teams much easier that others. I guess, self-organized teams also require specific kind of people, with specific character, ambitions and skills. At least some people working together can form good self-organised teams much easier that others.

]]> By: Bartosz Blimke http://wildfalcon.com/archives/2009/10/23/guiding-a-self-organising-team-into-effeciency/comment-page-1/#comment-27428 Bartosz Blimke Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:01:54 +0000 http://wildfalcon.com/?p=268#comment-27428 I think that we brought into the idea of leaving the team alone because it just worked! It very often worked much better than externally managed team, even if there was still lot of place for improvement.<br>Team members take more responsibility for the success of the project when they know that they are in charge of success. <br>It's also probably because many managers are just simply not capable of managing their teams. Self-organised teams manage themselves very often much better that under a bad management.<br>That's why there is such a focus in self-organised teams to let them emerge the best team structure naturally. Artificially created team structures and management structures often lead to disasters.<br>I agree on the other side that teams require in some cases outside facilitation and this facilitation can be very useful. It's always good to get external opinion. But how to find a person adequate to fulfill facilitator role correctly? It probably either has to emerge naturally from self-organized team, or come from outside with enough authority.<br><br>It's also very difficult to find external observer who doesn't work in a team and has enough knowledge or experience to efficiently spot the problems and intervene. I think that we brought into the idea of leaving the team alone because it just worked! It very often worked much better than externally managed team, even if there was still lot of place for improvement.
Team members take more responsibility for the success of the project when they know that they are in charge of success.
It's also probably because many managers are just simply not capable of managing their teams. Self-organised teams manage themselves very often much better that under a bad management.
That's why there is such a focus in self-organised teams to let them emerge the best team structure naturally. Artificially created team structures and management structures often lead to disasters.
I agree on the other side that teams require in some cases outside facilitation and this facilitation can be very useful. It's always good to get external opinion. But how to find a person adequate to fulfill facilitator role correctly? It probably either has to emerge naturally from self-organized team, or come from outside with enough authority.

It's also very difficult to find external observer who doesn't work in a team and has enough knowledge or experience to efficiently spot the problems and intervene.

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