Self-Organizing Team

A self-organizing team:

**sets direction for itself;

**design performing units for its work;

**manages (allocation, reallocation, estimation, re-estimation, delivery, rework)and monitors its work;

**executes the work;

**sets its rules and norms to achieve goal;

** has feeling of ownership and commitment;

** is self-driven, pull out work for itself to meet goal;

**requires mentoring and coaching;

** asks lot of questions to understand not only requirements but to understand reasons;

**gives lot of suggestions;

**intra team communication is spread across formal and informal channels;

**continuously enhance skill set;

**has high level of trust among team members; and

**sticks together for long time.