Is Team Self-selection the Obvious Choice?
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Allowing people to form their own teams, through team self-selection, can be a powerful approach to promote empowerment and to form viable teams with fast transition towards high performance. However, if the process is not carefully facilitated, team self-selection may lead to dysfunctional teams and disgruntled team-members. We have tried both outcomes and based on our experience we have identified patterns that lead to success - or failure. Our experiences are based on applying team self-selection in a SAFe-organization.
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Allowing people to form their own teams, through team self-selection, can be a powerful approach to promote empowerment and to form viable teams with fast transition towards high performance. However, if the process is not carefully facilitated, team self-selection may lead to dysfunctional teams and disgruntled team-members. We have tried both outcomes and based on our experience we have identified patterns that lead to success - or failure. Our experiences are based on applying team self-selection in a SAFe-organization.
About the speakers
Lead Scrum Master at SimCorp
Development Manager at SimCorp