Succeeding with Agile

Disbanding a Community

Most communities will eventually disband. A community formed to promote automated testing, for example, may exist with members coming and going for years as long as that is an area in which the organization needs to improve. Eventually (at least we’d like to think), the organization becomes good enough at automated testing that those community members can contribute more by devoting time to other improvement communities and the opportunities they represent.

Regarding the ETC specifically: It should disband once the organization has realized its transition to Scrum and has entered a phase of continuous improvement. The ETC exists only during the transition period, which may be multiple years for a large transition.