Agile Sports Framework - The Self-Organization Pillar

Self-organization is a fundamental concept in Agile Sports. Self-organization does not mean that players instead of managers control the team strategy and execution. Nor does it mean letting players do whatever they want to do. It means that management commits to guiding the evolution towards synergy, which emerges from the interaction of players, committed to team goals and learning through inspection, adaptation, self-organization and empiricism. The coach clarifies to players what the team objectives are for each 5 or 10 Game Sprint, and players (along with the lead analyst and assistant coach’s guidance) determine how they will add value. But they are nonetheless self-organizing, with influence from those who can assist them in achieving the team goal (such as analyst creating ways of measuring value and the coach adopting new offensive/defensive strategies). The player’s job is to self-organize around team challenges, boundaries, and constraints identified by the lead analyst..
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