uses the formal calculus to examine agile Teams, which only find a form when they selectively distinguish roles and projects from one another and relate them to one another.
His case study concerns student teams in the educational context of a university, whose discussions revolve around finding out which decisions are expected of them or are possible in their projects based on which decision-making premises. The teams only find a dynamically usable stability when they succeed in reliably distinguishing between decisions and decision premises in the meaning of an intrinsic Form.
Florian Grote is Professor of Product Management at CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He has filled design and product roles in the music technology industry, working on innovative instruments for electronic music production. His research focuses on cognitive and systemic perspectives on learning organizations with special attention to resilience and sustainability. site 
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GROTE, Florian, 2023. Distinction Dynamics: A Form Analysis of Self-Descriptions in Agile Teams. Soziale Systeme. 25 June 2023. Vol. 28, no. 1, p. 130–162. DOI 10.1515/sosys-2023-0008. page doi
**Abstract** Teams are the backbone and the most successful form of cooperation in contemporary product development organizations. Based on the agile mindset, many best practices of team organization have emerged. However, real teams do not always follow the blueprints of the methodology. They represent the complexity they face, which becomes evident in a situation where a global pandemic brings about dramatic changes in the contexts they operate in. This study is based on consultations with teams that sought outside support maneuvering their way through this complexity, and it looks for patterns in how they coped. How do teams describe their own journey? How do they set a focus and develop as teams? The study aims to identify and describe functional dynamics of decision-making in teams, to understand how structure and semantics, traditionally seen as separate, are interrelated in their morphogenesis.