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Self organizing teams

Last post 06:58 pm May 4, 2016 by Olivier Ledru
5 replies
Robert van Zeelt
07:01 am July 12, 2015

Dear people,

I made the PSM 1 exam and unfortunately failed by scoring 83%. The graph provided by Scrum shows that I scored bad on the self steering / self organizing team topic with a score of 71%.
I was looking for more information about self organizing teams, but I can't find much in the scrum guide or on this forum.
Can anyone give me some tips in where I can find more material related to self organizing teams in Scrum?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Robert

Michael Owen
12:24 pm July 13, 2015

Robert,

Each section is covered in the material in PSM here.

https://www.scrum.org/Courses/Professional-Scrum-Master/PSM-Subject-Are…

Michael

Robert van Zeelt
09:03 am July 14, 2015

I was not aware, thanks Michael!

Sanjay Saini
08:05 am May 4, 2016


Have you attended a PSM I class?

Scrum.org trainers cover a lot of case studies and activities based upon self-organization and cross-functional, it will be really helpful.

Note - I am not associated with Scrum.org in any form on selling their course :-)

Jason Knight
02:23 pm May 4, 2016

I would add a short, inspirational video that presents the concept of self-organization very powerfully:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APD7oQ3xrSA

Harrison Owen in the creator of Open Space Technology. It's one of the purest expressions of self-organization I've found. The purity helps to strip away old style Taylorism in software project management from thinking. As such, it's pretty challenging.

Do read the books recommended to you above. Here's a short video from the author of "Drive" to get you on your way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APD7oQ3xrSA

Olivier Ledru
06:58 pm May 4, 2016

Kids playing soccer are actually very good at self organisation 😉

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