Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Summary

Being agile requires whole teams because the synergy derived from cross-disciplined and cross-component teams working together enables teams to be more productive than working in isolation.

• Whole teams accelerate delivery and increase team capacity by working closely together to leverage each other’s unique skills.

• Agile advocates the idea of “generalizing specialists” who can work outside their regular domains when required to achieve iteration goals.

• Whole teams work across the architecture stack to deliver end-to-end functionality from the beginning of the project and develop a common history so that consistent design patterns emerge.

• Whole teams start the project together; they get to “Done!” each iteration together; and ...