Is Your Team Cross-Functional Enough?
by Kelly Waters
Agile software development methods encourage the use of cross-functional teams, in order to avoid too many specialists causing bottlenecks for the team. Henrik Kniberg has written an interesting blog post about how the team can quickly evaluate their status: 'is the team cross-functional enough?'.
Kelly.
Kelly.
1 March 2009 15:00
A nice simple idea. Refinement comment added to Henrik's post.
3 March 2009 19:45
Hi Kelly,
This is where the Agile methodology should kick in to ensure the teams are balanced, and also change regularly enough to ensure no single points of failure are preset. An efficient project manager can ensure information exchange by how the teams are built and avoid the problem altogether
Regards,
David
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