CHAPTER 4

The Agile Scrum Team

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success!”

Henry Ford

Chapter Purpose

As a current and former leader of many teams, across many years

I want to explain the Agile “team” concept

So that people can achieve the synergy which only that of team can bring to a project.

In this chapter, I elaborate on activities performed by Agile Scrum teams, that result in high performance. That is, delivering more of the value-adding “ask” from the ProductOwner, team empowerment, and delivering value to the business quickly.

The AgileScrumTeam’s Composition

There are three major parts to an Agile scrum team; ProductOwner, BuildTeam, and ScrumMaster. In this book, we have split the BuildTeam ...

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