Agile working: Developing self-organized teams

Agility – What's behind it?

• Agile Manifesto – Values and Principles
• Agility: Changing requirements and real visions.
• Line organization and self-organized organization - differences, possibilities.
• The desire for meaningful collaboration.

Self-organized teams in practice—what might that look like?

• 4 team types compared: the authority matrix provides clarity!
• 10 principles for self-organized teams.
• Topics of self-organized teams.
• Agile tools and methods.
• Processes, structures and practices of self-management explained using the example of Scrum.
• Complementary agile approaches to work organization and problem solving: Kanban and Design Thinking.

Responsibility and decision-making in self-organized teams

• Why clarifying responsibility is important.
• Defined roles: Clear areas of responsibility and tasks, promote decision-making authority in the team.
• Methods for analysis and decision making.

Trust and transparency in the team: how do you create a good culture of cooperation?

• Psychological safety as a basis—dealing with mistakes constructively
  and learning from them: 8 success factors.
• Aim and benefits of feedback - specific methods.
• Goal and benefits of the retrospective - concrete methods.
• Process steps of conflict resolution.

How can self-organized teams be implemented successfully?

• Necessary requirements and conditions.
• Changing an existing way of working and corporate culture - the new role of the manager.
• Accepting challenges and actively shaping them.
• Reflecting on the status quo and creating something new - finding ideas and transferring them into practice.