Chapter 8
Effective Collaboration
There’s a buzz—a kind of energy—that you can feel when a high-performance Professional Scrum Team works in harmony to solve a problem. Each Developer gets totally absorbed in their task. They each do their part integrating the design, the coding, and the testing. Slices of working product are assembled and verified. Definitions of Done are met. PBIs are moved to the Done column. Everyone loses track of time. Everyone feels happy and satisfied. They are experiencing flow.
Bruce Tuckman wrote about the stages of group development. He identified four stages in the development model: forming, storming, norming, and performing. In the initial, forming stage, the individuals come together to form the team. They may ...
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