That’s Not My Job
A development team can have all the skills necessary to solve a problem, but not take advantage of them. Just like it’s possible to have whole development teams that are siloed by area of expertise, similar silos can exist within a development team, too. As a result, team members may refuse to reach outside the bounds of their competency to get an increment to done.
For example, let’s say there are two days left in a sprint. The dev team is done coding, but they still need to do a full regression test on a website to consider the work done. In the daily scrum, the tester comments that he doesn’t think he’ll have the time to finish and asks if anyone is willing to help. A software engineer responds, “I’m a Java developer—I shouldn’t ...
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