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Cross-functional teams
From the course: Agile Foundations
Cross-functional teams
- Agile teams should be motivated and self-organized. You see this in principles five and 11 in the Agile manifesto. Many organizations have found that the best way to keep teams self-organized is by running them differently from the rest of the organization. Many organizations are split up into functional areas. These are often called silos because they look like the vertical buildings used to store grain. In an organization, each of these silos has their own area of responsibility. So you might have a vertical stack for business people, then another for software development, maybe another for quality assurance. Each of these silos will have their own managers and common practices. That's why a typical team will have representatives from each of these silos. So you might have a business analyst who coordinates with the customer to write the products requirements. Then you'll have software developers who write the software. Then you'll have testers who make sure that the product…
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