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5 Practical Steps to Improve Self-Organization in Your Team.

How to build a self-organized team without moving into anarchy and chaos?

Lukasz Krzyzek
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3 min readMay 7, 2021

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Self-organization is one of the main concept of modern methods of managment, unfortunately it’s very often misued and abused by teams, who think they can make whatever they want and how they want if they’re so called ‘self-organized’.

Below you can find 5 practical tips that would help you to build a healthy organizational culture and have a effectively working self-organized teams that are focus on delivering business goals.

1. Make information transparent to everyone.

Enabling easy access to information would encourage your team-members to make decisions on their own, gives them the wider perspective and remove all excuses for not acting. Improve transparency of information in you team by:

  • encouraging people to share their personal and project goals with others;
  • granting access to available tools, software to your team;
  • creating digital and physical information radiators;
  • as a Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Tech Lead consider what and how you’re sharing with others — don’t share not confirmed information…

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Lukasz Krzyzek
Agile Insider

Scrum Master — PSM III | I’m writing about pragmatic agile, working in dev teams and product ownership. | 100k+ views.