(Select 2) What factors foster team "Ba"?

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Options

• ADecentralized decision-making.
• BBuilt-in instability.
• CUse of Feature Teams.
• DDunbar's number

• A
  86% (48)
• C
  4% (2)
• D
  11% (6)

Explanation

"Ba" (from Nonaka's knowledge creation theory) is a shared context that enables team knowledge creation, and two of its key enabling conditions are autonomy and fluctuation/creative chaos. A is correct because decentralized decision-making gives teams the autonomy to self-organize, which is one of Nonaka's five enabling conditions for Ba. B is correct because built-in instability (creative chaos/fluctuation) creates the productive tension that drives teams to redefine problems and generate new knowledge together.

C (Feature Teams) is an Agile organizational structure that can support knowledge-sharing environments, but it is not itself one of the defined enabling conditions for Ba - it's a distractor mixing Agile concepts. D (Dunbar's number) (~150 stable social relationships) is relevant to organizational sizing limits, not to fostering Ba specifically - it describes a cognitive constraint, not an enabling condition.

Memory tip: Think of Ba's enabling conditions as "AIRR" - Autonomy, Intention, Redundancy, Requisite variety, and Fluctuation. When you see "decentralized" think Autonomy, and "instability" maps directly to Fluctuation - both are on the list; Feature Teams and Dunbar's number are not.

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