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The self-organized team is a core technique in the modern software development methodologies known as agile techniques. It improves the ability of a team to make efficient decision and move a project toward the ultimate goal. This technique has been recognized as a motivational practice in many companies, while in others applying it produced a sufficient negative impact. In this article the meaning of the practice is revised. We study cases when applying it would have positive or negative effect and how we can improve the efficiency of that even in a negative case.
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Kumlander, D. (2015). Self-Organized Teams: A Contradictory Technique to Motivate Personnel. In: Sobh, T., Elleithy, K. (eds) Innovations and Advances in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, Networking and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06773-5_51
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