Scrum team

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The focus on people and the groupis a very important aspect of Scrum and all work delivered to the customer is done by a dedicated Scrum Team. It is a collection of individuals working together to deliver the requested and committed product increments iteratively and incrementally. The team is also maximizing opportunities for feedback and ensuring that a potentially useful version of working product is always available.

Scrum team

Scrum is designed for cross functional and self-organizing teams of up to 10 members. Team members break, refine and plan their work into goals that can be completed within two weeks timeboxed iterations.

The Scrum Team shares different tasks and responsibilities related to the delivery of the product. There are three closely inter-related roles designed to optimize flexibility, creativity and productivity: Product owner, Scrum master and Developers.

Scrum team roles

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developers

The Scrum Team is self-organizing and chooses how to accomplish work, rather than being directed by others outside the group. It is also cross-functional, having all the competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team.

Tuckman’s stages of team development

Tuckman’s model explains that relationships establish in time as the team develops maturity and ability. Also, leadership style changes to a more collaborative or shared leadership.

  • Forming – putting the structure of the team together, team members feel ambiguous and conflict is avoided at all costs due to the need to be accepted into the group and team members look to a group leader for direction and guidance
  • Storming – occurs as the process of organizing tasks and processes surface interpersonal conflicts and is dominated by leadership, power and structural issues
  • Norming – team members are creating new ways of working and being together, the group develops cohesion, leadership changes from one teammate in charge to shared leadership and team members learn that they have to trust one another for shared leadership to be effective
  • Performing – true interdependence is the norm of this stage of group development, the team is flexible as individuals adapt to meet the needs of other team members and is a highly productive stage both personally and professionally
  • Adjourning – team members are ready to leave, causing significant change to the team structure, membership or purpose, they experience change and transition and while the group continues to perform productively, they also need time to manage their feelings of termination and transition

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