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

Chapter 8 Teams

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.

—Edward Abbey

Chapter

• Try...Self-Organizing Teams 194

• Try...Set Challenging But Realistic Goals 195

• Try...Cross-Functional Teams 196

• Try...Long-Lived Teams 199

• Try...Team Owns the Process 200

• Try...Team Manages External Dependencies 202

• Try...Dedicated Team Members 204

• Try...Multi-Skilled Workers 204

• Try...Team Makes Decisions 207

• Try...Open Team Conflict 208

• Avoid...Phase-based “resource allocation” 209

• Avoid...Parallel releases (a symptom of imbalanced groups and work) 209

• Avoid...Staircase branching (a symptom of imbalanced groups and work) 210

• Avoid...Projects in product development ...