How to get started with new Agile Team
Problem Many teams start out with good intentions and then have quality erode as people go through the motions due to burn out or just no longer having fun. Solution 1. For sustainability, the team really should own and evolve their standards instead of them being handed a bible. 2. Also, it is more critical to get early momentum through delivery of working software and feedback on that software than to get bogged down in the minutiae of a specific standard. 3. I suggest starting with the minimum that the team reaches a quick consensus on as necessary from the beginning and then add/subtract from it as feedback and experience indicates to the whole team. The standards can and should change over time. The key is clarity , testability , extensibility and maintainability of the code itself. 4. It is also important to establish from the beginning that the code base is shared by the whole team. No part of the code should be understood and maintained by only one team member. 5.