Scrum Teams are multifunctional; that is, the members give all the required skills to generate value in each Sprint. Self-managed (Self-organized changed to Self-managed in Scrum Guide 2020) is the main characteristic of each scrum team member.
What does self-management mean? Why is it important in the workplace?
Referring to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, self-management (noun) is the act of taking responsibility for your behaviour, health and happiness, or organising your work activities. This involves stress management, gratification delay, self-motivation, and setting and working towards personal and academic objectives.
Self-management sounds like being your boss but starting up your own company doesn’t mean it does. It simply implies that you take responsibility for your own decisions and do things as well as you can. Self-management is about deciding to do more than you need to do, and building for life and work is a great talent.
In the workplace, self-management skills are important because they help individual relate to themselves and their co-workers in a better working atmosphere. All primary examples of self-management abilities are problem-solving, resisting stress, communicating, managing time, improving memory, and exercising. In terms of efficiency, quality, creativity, customer satisfaction and profitability, having a team that can manage itself adds enormous bottom-line value to any business.
Scrum and Self-management
Per Scrum guide 2020, As long as their Daily Scrum focuses on progress towards the Sprint Goal and creates an actionable plan for the next day of work, developers can pick whatever structure and techniques they want. This induces focus and enhances self-management.
The change from Self-Organizing to Self-Managing was one interesting change to the Scrum Guide for the 2020 release. Although It a one single word change, make a lot of difference. However, teams have always been expected by Scrum to do what it takes to deliver a precious increase. Still, the Scrum Team will now take responsibility for all product-related activities by self-management.
Some of the advantages of self-management in scrum team are:
- Accountability is for all team member which decrease the overall cost of increment in each sprint.
- The team can resolve conflicts internally in the retrospective meetings.
- Scrum team will focus on sprint goal(s).
- By self-management, each team member can identify skills weaknesses.
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