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

by Leslie Ekas, Scott Will
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h 58m
English
IBM Press
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What Is a Whole Team?

In the context of agile development, whole teams are teams that are both cross-component and cross-discipline teams that work together throughout a product life cycle. The whole team is responsible for the success of its work. By cross-discipline I mean a team that includes developers, testers, and user documentation professionals (writers). By cross-component I refer to teams that are responsible—not for just a single component out of a larger project—but which have the necessary expertise to work on all the affected components. The whole team concept goes beyond just team composition though: The whole team concept is a way of thinking and acting that must become the norm. In fact, until a team starts to be a true whole ...

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