I have been going back in forth with several coworkers on two seemingly contradictory points. We want to see teams self-organize and take personal ownership for what they do and how they do it. Simultaneously, most teams can’t seem to make the leap at first. As Jeff Sutherland has proposed, sometime teams need “Shock Therapy” to become effective Agile teams. Yet this seems counter intuitive to the idea of self managing teams. By definition, does the jump start actually impede the team from achieving self-sufficiency. How does an organization know when structure is needed for a team or when it is ready to move on it’s own?
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