Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

Chapter 7 Feature Teams

Better to teach people and risk they leave, than not and risk they stay

—anonymous

Chapter

• Introduction to Feature Teams 149

• Avoid...Single-Function Teams 155

• Avoid...Component Teams 155

• Try...Feature Teams 174

• Transition 188

Introduction to Feature Teams

Figure 7.1 shows a feature team—a long-lived,^1. cross-functional team that completes many end-to-end customer features, one by one.

Figure 7.1. feature team—long-lived, cross-functional, learning-oriented, multi-skilled people

In Scrum and other agile methods the recommended team structure is to organize teams by customer-centric features. Jim Highsmith, ...