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Scrum Guide 2020 — How Radical Is the Change From Self-Organisation To Self-Management?

Scrum Guide 2020 — How Radical Is the Change From Self-Organisation To Self-Management?

On the power and deceptiveness of labels

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Nov 29, 2020
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On the power and deceptiveness of labels

The Scrum Guide 2020 has updates on many fronts. One of them is that as of now Scrum Teams are self-managing. This used to be self-organising. On the surface, this looks like a major change. The radicality of the change is confirmed when you compare the following two lines from the 2017 and 2020 guides:

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