Concept: Agile Team |  |

Agile Team

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- Form Team

Main Description

An Agile team is a cross-functional group of people that have everything, and everyone, necessary to produce a working, tested increment of product. Dedicate these people to the team, and as a rule, do not move them between or across teams as demands ebb and flow.

I’m going to suggest that the very definition of an Agile team is getting in the way of forming Agile teams. Mostly, because we misunderstand what a product actually is. In the small, this guidance is clear, it’s the system.

All the way from user interaction to data and back and all the abilities to deploy and install said product into production. However, in the large, forming a team like this isn’t usually possible, and often not advisable—even if it is possible.

Also, in the large, a product is actually a sub-system of a larger systems-integration.

When you look at a product this way, it’s often possible to create a small, cross-functional group of people that has everything—and everyone—necessary to produce a working, tested increment of product.