Agile Lean SOT (Self Organising Teams)

Self Organising Teams (SOT) is a means of achieving lean in Agile using the Scrum management methodology with decreasing interference from management and lessened burden of process overhead on the software development and test teams.

Benefits of using SOT Practices are:

• Self organising teams run on basis of core values like teamwork, trust, working agreements and self empowerment & esteem, commitment, thereby increasing the team productivity and the ROI for the product owner.
• Scrum process which is used by SOT, maximizes communication through daily status meetings, open workspaces, and optimal size teams and simplifies communication amongst teams and product owner.
• Fully functional SOT gets protected from interference and distractions and supports personal development with opportunities for continuous improvement with more regular and direct feedbacks.
• Best designs, architecture, and code come from the SOT, thereby helping the team members to grow as individuals who get opportunity to participate in planning, and estimation at low levels as well.