Why Does Scrum Require Self-Managing Teams?
When teams are faced with complex problems (where more is unknown than known), or given the responsibility to create an innovative product, they are rarely able to succeed by following someone’s specific instructions. After all, by its very nature there is no clear way to solve the problem, there are no recipes to follow. The team can only arrive at the solution by experimenting their way to it. They must create hypotheses, determine how to test their hypothesis and act on the insights they uncovered through their experimentation.
The best way to support a team working this way is to give them the space to determine how to do their work, rather than directing them. This space and
empowerment is the essence of self-management.
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