Small, cross functional autonomous teams are at the heart of agile and digital working. Autonomy allows them to react fast and enables leadership to flow to people with the expertise to solve the problems. But what does autonomy really mean?<\/p>\n
When we talk about autonomy, we often think about being able to take decisions and actions free from interference from others. However, in any organisation, it’s rare that we have complete autonomy to take action or spend money.<\/p>\n
Complete autonomy would imply that the team can decide what it’s going to deliver and how it’s going to deliver it and has financial approval to spend money, probably within an overall allocated budget.<\/p>\n