What Makes Squads Different?
Where squads differ from your typical enterprise agile team is in the sheer amount of empowerment and trust they are given. Tech companies don’t view their teams as mere vegetable choppers. They see them more as key collaborators whom they trust not only with building the product but with solving the customer’s problem and creating the very product itself.
Here are a few ways enterprise agile teams and squads differ.
Squads Create Their Own Work
Unlike enterprise-based agile teams who get their work handed to them in the form of projects, squads come up with their own solutions to their customers’ problems and create the work themselves as shown in the figure.
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