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Self-management

Teams internally decide who does what, when, and how — the successor term to "self-organizing" in the 2020 Scrum Guide.

Replaced "self-organizing" in Scrum 2020 to emphasize authority over work within team boundaries. SAFe uses "self-managing" or "self-organizing" interchangeably.

Across the Frameworks

Scrum
Native
Self-management
SAFe
Native

Self-managing Agile Teams.

LeSS
Native

Self-managing feature teams.

Nexus
Native

Defined by this framework.

Related Terms

Present in Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Nexus.