Research on self-organization in agile teams

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Background: A central credo of agile methods is the assumption that it is not known in advance what will be required. This is assumed to be true not only with respect to the product requirements, but also with respect to the development process. Agile methods therefore require the team to "self-organize" their process; Scrum formulates this explicitly as a central idea of its approach. But self-organization is far from easy, even though most Scrum elements are designed to support it: daily standup, planning meeting, sprint, sprint review, retrospective, backlogs etc.

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