Self-Organizing Team
A team that decides internally how to accomplish its work rather than being directed by a manager.
A self-organizing team decides internally how to do its work and coordinates among its members rather than receiving task assignments from a project manager or functional lead. This idea is central to agile delivery in PMBOK 7 and the Agile Practice Guide: the project manager or Scrum Master acts as a servant leader, creating an enabling environment and removing impediments rather than directing the work. On the exam, both self-organizing and self-managing are team-level concepts; self-managing teams (2020 Scrum Guide language) extend the idea to also choosing what to work on. Answers showing a manager allocating tasks within a sprint are typically wrong in an agile context.
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