Principle 11 - Promote self-organizing teams

“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.”

In most organizations that follow traditional methodologies, decision making is generally done in the people higher up in the hierarchy. This agile principle encourages promoting self-organization in teams. A self-organized team with decision-making powers would simply perform better because the responsibility of satisfying the customers will on the team members, rather than a single project manager.