4.2) Development Team

Question 1

Development Team definition?

Answer 1

The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of “Done” product at the end of each Sprint.

Question 2

At which Event is a “Done” Increment required?

Answer 2

At the Sprint Review.

Question 3

Who creates the Increment?

Answer 3

Only the Development Team.

Question 4

Development team is empowered by the organization to do what?

Answer 4

To organize and manage their own work.

Question 5

5 main characteristics of the Development Teams?

Answer 5

• self-organizing
• cross functional
• no titles
• no sub-teams
• accountability belongs to the Development Team as whole

Question 6

Optimal Development Team size, why?

Answer 6

3 - 9

Fewer than 3, decreases interaction and results in smaller productivity gains + skill constraints.

More than 9 - too much coordination + too much complexity for an empirical process.

• Product Owner and Scrum Master not included in count