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How are human resource management aspects managed in self organized teams?

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Srikana Ray
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Hi PM Community.
I am learning about Scrum and have understood that they are self organized teams that would be with respect to the work or product. Who manages the resource management aspects? Like performance appraisal, recognition, team location, and other human resource things which are usually a manager's responsibility. Are Scrum teams functionally aligned to a project manager? Please let me know your thoughts.
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DILEEP KUMAR RAROTH CEO| Anba Gulf , KSA Al Jubail ,, Saudi Arabia
Jun 19, 2018 7:15 AM
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Adrian -

You are absolutely correct - I have found that there is often a LOT of external management happening for so-called self-managed teams! This is not agile, but it is unfortunately the reality!

Kiron
Kiron,
The very reason behind the demand of having an external management for the so-salled "self managed teams" is the lack of a written guideline in their area of interest. The group is formed with a common goal ; means there should be a set of well described guidline that need to be clearly understood and followed by each individual. There need to have group discussions among the team so that all are clear about their responsibilities and the level of management that need to be self-imposed.
If this is not happening in the initial stages of the team formation, one can not rule out the chances of conflicts, atleast in the individual approaches.
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Jun 19, 2018 11:18 AM
Kiron Bondale
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Agreed Dileep - working agreements need to be established by the team early in their life to avoid externally imposed oversight...

Kiron
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Jun 19, 2018 9:41 AM
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Kiron,
The very reason behind the demand of having an external management for the so-salled "self managed teams" is the lack of a written guideline in their area of interest. The group is formed with a common goal ; means there should be a set of well described guidline that need to be clearly understood and followed by each individual. There need to have group discussions among the team so that all are clear about their responsibilities and the level of management that need to be self-imposed.
If this is not happening in the initial stages of the team formation, one can not rule out the chances of conflicts, atleast in the individual approaches.
Agreed Dileep - working agreements need to be established by the team early in their life to avoid externally imposed oversight...

Kiron
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Eric Isom Owner| learn.pmguaranteed.com Ut, United States
The terms self-organizing, self-managing, and self-directing teams are often used interchangeably. Though they are not quite the same, they are close enough for this discussion. Despite the name, such teams are not devoid of management or leadership. They simply give the team members more control in deciding how to do the work and who will do what. It is not anarchy. In many instances, such as with traditional Scrum, many aspects of the methodology are still quite structured and managed.

I highly recommend the book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, by Jeff Sutherland, one of the founders of Scrum. It provides an excellent explanation of the principles, practices, and applications of the Scrum methodology.

For more in-depth study, I recommend Essential Scrum, and then Agile Product Management with Scrum.
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