How to Apply Self-Management
Blog: Agile Adoption Roadmap
Learn the concept of Bounded Authority as this is a critical element for moving toward self-management. This concept captures the essence of understanding your baseline of ownership and then allows you to better consider which activities to incrementally move toward the team.
Then create two more columns to indicate who currently has that bounded authority for those activity. The minimum bounded authority configuration is 1) the manager owns the activity and 2) the team owns the activity. This may become more nuanced to 4 bounded authority configurations such as 1) the manager owns outright 2) the manager owns with team input, the 3) the team owns with manager input, and 4) the team owns outright. There is also a more nuanced bounded authority configuration called the Delegation boardby Jurgen Appelo with 7 bounded authority configurations. I recommend starting with the manager and team columns.
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