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Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team is self-managing, according to the Scrum manual, also known as the Scrum Guide. So, let’s explore this question at the very heart of team autonomy.
There are several references to self-management and team autonomy in the Scrum Guide 2020. However, no paragraph is addressing the question of when and how to abandon Scrum directly:
There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. One of Scrum’s first principles is self-management. It is based on the idea that the people closest to a problem are best suited to find a solution. Therefore, the task of the management is not to tell people what to do when and how. Instead, its job is to provide the guardrails, the constraints within which a Scrum team identifies the best possible solution. Join me and explore the consequences of management ignoring self-management and what you can do about it.
There are several references to self-management in the Scrum Guide 2020:
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People always have questions and concerns about Risk management and Autonomy in the Scrum Team, like:
At a recent conference, I overheard three managers talking about self-organizing teams:
“You can’t just turn people loose and let a team make all the decisions. They’ll mess things up. And with all these Scrum Masters, coaches, and self-organizing teams, sounds like I’m out of a job,” said one with resignation.
Let’s say we’ve “conquered agile," and the prophecy came true: We have a self-organizing team!
But how does leadership fit into this? What does a leader do in a self-organizing team?
In many organizations, I see Scrum not producing its anticipated value. The concept of value varies across organisations, but there is also a universal anticipated value of Scrum.
The Scrum Guide says about Scrum's purpose: