Definition:
Agile team members are not assigned with tasks, and they get to select task they will be working on. During the daily meeting discussion, choice of tasks can be discussed with other team members for priority and dependency. An index card or a sticky note having tasks in question is representation of Signing up for a Task.
Origin:
- In 1998, some articles written on Extreme Programming mentions ‘task assigned’ vs ‘tasks self-chosen’ to describe the difference between ‘Old Way’ and ‘Extreme Way’