6.5: Global Cross-functional Teams and Best Practices
6: Agile Culture and Communications Management
6.5: Global Cross-functional Teams and Best Practices - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems
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<v ->We have already mentioned cross-functional teams,</v> so now it's time to define what it actually means. For that, let's go back to Scrum Guides. The essence of Scrum is small team of people. The individual team is highly flexible and adaptive. The strengths continue operating in single, several, many, and networks of teams, that develop, release, operate, and sustain the work. They collaborate and interoperate, through a sophisticated development architecture, and target release environments. So we said that Scrum teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. Self-organizing teams, choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team. Cross-functional teams have all the competencies needed, to accomplish the work, without depending on others who are not part of the team. This has a lot to do with team composition, that we discussed in the previous lesson. Until the teams are structured, in such a way that they cross-functional, and can deliver the work assigned to them, without external dependencies, they will not become high-performing.
