Cross-pollination of skills happens as our team starts to hone its techniques for collaboration. Communication between team members will begin to get so tight that it will be difficult to see where the handovers between different roles are taking place.
Where before we saw clear boundaries between user experience, software engineer, test engineer, agile coach, and Product Owner, we will start to see the edges begin to blur. As collaboration improves, handovers will become redundant as the knowledge transfer between team members becomes seamless.
Unless we've worked on Agile teams before, few of us will have experienced this; a phased process such as Waterfall often keeps the roles separate. So, how does this start? For most teams, it begins as we learn more about each other's roles as we start to work together. In the team Liftoff, we explicitly...