Characteristics of Agile Team

● They are self-organizing rather than role- or title-based.
● They are empowered to make decisions.
● They truly believe that as a team they can solve any problem.
● They are committed to team success vs. success at any cost.
● The team owns its decisions and commitments.
● Trust, vs. fear or anger, motivates them.
● They are consensus-driven, with full divergence and then convergence. '
● And they live in a world of constant constructive disagreement.


—the characteristics of high collaboration and, thus, high performance (adapted from Tabaka 2006): 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Scrum Answer to Top 10 Software Project Risks

Source: (The Standish Group, 2011) Lack of top management commitment Scrum demands commitment from the top management through the assignation of a full-time cross-functional self organized team. The team is protected and can take their own decisions about the project with the support of the top management. Failure to gain user commitment In Scrum, the team constantly show working software to the users, which increase the commitment and feedback. Misunderstanding the requirements Scrum knows that is not possible to fully understand all the user requirements. In each iteration, the team work in the more important and clear requirements. As the software is developed, the team get better insights about the project goals and have more clarity about the following requirements. Lack of adequate user involvement Constantly working software makes the users more involve in the process. Lack of required knowledge/skills in the project personnel In Scrum, the teams are cros
Read more