Forming Scrum Teams
No matter the size or complexity of a product, Scrum Teams remain small, autonomous, self-contained, cross-functional, and self-organizing. Let's go over these in a bit more detail:
- Small teams avoid the network density issues that cause inefficiencies resulting from the exponential increase in communication relationships with each added team member.
- Autonomous teams have the authority to figure out the work that's required to implement the requirements described in the product backlog.
- Self-contained teams have all the resources they require to complete their work.
- Cross-functional teams have all the knowledge and skills they require to perform their work.
- Self-organizing teams have the responsibility of assigning work tasks to team members in the most efficient manner.
Members of small Scrum Teams must collaborate to work through dependency and integration issues, they must get along, and they must be willing to jump in...