DiggWhen people consider what got them to their current market or look closely at how their competitors are succeeding they see smart, sharp, fast hyper-productive teams. They find that some organizations possess a knack for rapidly configuring themselves into a shape and deploying their hyper-productive teams to rapidly build new product capabilities. Some competitive organizations can do this within days or a few months not years. By the time a competitive analysis is completed of what the competition is doing the market is already changing and moving on. What we see is a need for continuous analysis, consumption of that analysis and a rapid deployment of new capabilities.
After peering closely at what got them to their current position of success we see a “well formed team”. It is amazing how quickly people in corporate america can forget the power that was present from these teams and what they are able to produce. One thing is clear. A WFT was at the heart of their success and everytime they try to create that magic without a WFT ideas just don’t seem to flourish.
[...] Well formed teams will exhibit a team swarm pattern after they mature. A good sign of your team maturing is that they tend to swarm and jump on work together and often one story at a time. This is an observable point of view an that the Scrum Master can use to detect when his/her team is starting to work well together. To an untrained observer this will be a sign of chaos and the tendency is for them to step in and clean up mess “who’s in charge here anyway” or “this needs to be controlled”. These types of management practices are anathema to a good team and especially a good agile / scrum team. [...]
[...] good agile processes follow Agile’s Big Rule and are targeted at creating and sustaining well formed teams. A good agile process contains both the seed of it’s own evaluation and the seed for the [...]
[...] Scrum Master is concerned with health of the team. Are we a well formed team? [...]
[...] Team – the engine to get the job done. [...]
[...] as a team. Agile development is a description of how we can put that framework to use as a well formed team. A framework for agile development is especially important as the complexity of our effort [...]