Agile teams take on a very different structure and workstyle than what you’d see in traditional project management. Inwaterfall projects, for example, team structures focus on centralized authority, clear hierarchies, and top-down task delegation. In Agile, roles are defined by accountability, rath...
While working on an agile project, you may come across some farm animal terminology, specifically Pigs and/or Chickens. These terms are perhaps used less and less recently, but they came about from an anecdote that demonstrates the level of commitment of certain members of the team. The story...
By knowing the responsibilities and core types of activities up front, you can help make sure you have the right people on the team so that you can achieve project success in a healthy and sustainable way. On smaller teams, the key roles include: team lead, team members, product owner, ...
An Agile team needs every person required to produce the end product or service. The team is typically cross-functional, and roles will vary depending on the project’s needs and the type ofAgile frameworkchosen. When building a high-performing Agile team, there are a number of steps to fol...
Ensures that project team only accepts a sustainable amount of in progress work Work-in-progress Limit:tasks are limited to what the team can actually handle during a certain amount of time. Flow:a core principle of Kanban that aims to maximize efficiency. ...
By moving work to the teams and trains, instead of bringing people to the work Enterprises can largely eliminate the ‘project model’ of working (seeLean Budgets). They create long-lived teams and teams of teams, dedicated to relentlessly improving their ability to deliversolutions. This is ho...
Team members who are T-shaped are said to understand most aspects of a project at a basic level (the horizontal line at the top of the “T”) while having deep expertise in one area of specialization (the vertical line in the center). This ability can be a benefit to teams looking to...
Articles and videos on creating and managing cross-functional Scrum teams: scrum master, product owner and development team.
Define the families forming these value streams, and set up the teams and roles needed under each family Visualize your overall agile architecture in Orgvue Screenshot from Orgvue showing the creation of the agile team structures Screenshot from Orgvue showing the FTE plan for each role based ...
Scrum teams are self-organizing and don’t need a traditional project manager. Instead, the team is led by a Scrum Master whose main job is to clear away all obstacles to work getting done more efficiently. The Scrum Master also facilitates all of the Scrum ceremonies, or meetings, to help...