Team Terminology - Self-Organizing or Self-Managing?
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After studying literature for a number of years and analyzing authors' word choices, I find that I sometimes latch on to the vocabulary that is being used in conversations and wonder if the speaker chose the right word. Recently I was part of a conversation about teams, and one person was using the term "self-managing" to describe them in Agile. While I appreciate the sentiment he was trying to convey, the word-nerd in me kept thinking: "It's self-organizing, not self-managing!"
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