From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
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Letting the team self-organize
From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
Letting the team self-organize
- Think about the majority of jobs in the early 20th century, they were the auto workers, retailers, and construction workers. Most of these early jobs followed a clear hierarchy, they were the employees and managers. The managers would manage the employees and the employees, if they wanted to stay employed, listened closely to their mangers. Now fast forward to a modern Agile project, an Agile team will have graphic designers, developers, and database engineers. Team members will have spent years developing their skills. The designers will have attended design school and have sophisticated software. The developers usually have an engineering degree and have mastered several programming languages. The database engineers will have certifications from Oracle or Microsoft. A manager can not be expected to have this level of expertise. This makes it difficult to manage these employees in the same way managers did a few hundred years ago. The team usually has a lot more knowledge than…
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