Organizations now understand that self-organizing teams perform better. Unfortunately, it’s extremely difficult to find the right balance between control and empowerment that works for your teams in your context. Even after your teams begin to self-organize, you are not finished. You should increase the level of self-organization over time as your teams mature. Shawn Button and Chris Farrell present a concise acronym that can help you empower your teams: BEGIN―Boundaries, Empowerment, Goals, Ingredients, and Nurture. BEGIN can be used as a checklist to ensure that you cover the necessary elements of self-organization, or as an exercise to use with teams and management to establish a self-organization contract. This session is a mix of workshop and lecture. Participate in exercises designed to illuminate the benefits of self-organization, and learn how BEGIN can be used to create and evolve self-organization.
Shawn Button
Leanintuit
Shawn Button was bitten by the software bug in his early teens, writing programs on paper before he had access to a computer. Now Shawn has racked up more than two decades of software development experience—from small startups to huge enterprises. Discovering the power of agile and lean has renewed his love for software development. As an agile coach, Shawn believes that any team can do great things—with the right leadership, mentorship, support, and a system in which to shine.
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