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Collaboration and self-organized teams
From the course: Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
Collaboration and self-organized teams
- I once attended a wedding that had the most delicious cake I've ever eaten. It was three layers, each with its own flavor: almond cake under lemon cake under strawberry cake. Absolutely fantastic. It made me think of my Agile team at the time. No, seriously, it did. They were a wonderful team and had just attained the level of maturity known as self-organizing. I thought about what it took for them to arrive at that place, and I recognized that it's like a layer cake. There are essential elements to helping a team become self-organizing. The first foundational layer to becoming self-organizing is trust. As a leader, your first and primary job as you launch your project with your team is to establish a safe environment based upon trust. Once you establish trust within the team, your job isn't done. Maintaining trust on the team is a full-time job. It requires you to continue facilitating open and honest communication. Doing this face to face is ideal, but video calling can meet the…
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