Self-managing: Scrum’s most misunderstood phrase
According to the Scrum Guide, Scrum Teams are “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.”It seems straightforward. And yet, this simple phrase is one of the most commonly misunderstood in the Scrum Guide. Self-managing doesn’t mean that the Scrum Team — or the Scrum Master — is all-powerful. (Sorry, not sorry!) It means that the organization gives the Scrum Team the mandate to deliver value according to the product vision and goal within a set of guardrails.