{"id":5003333,"date":"2015-12-16T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T07:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aadev22.local\/?post_type=aa_glossary&#038;p=5003333"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:05:07","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"aa_glossary","link":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/glossary\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cteam\u201d in the Agile sense is a small group of people, assigned to the same project or effort, nearly all of them on a full-time basis. A small minority of team members may be part-time contributors or may have competing responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The notion of a team entails shared accountability: good or bad, the outcomes should be attributed to the entire team rather than to any individual.<\/p>\n<p>The team is expected to possess all of the necessary competencies, whether technical (programming, designing, testing) or business (domain knowledge, decision-making ability).<\/p>\n<p>Roles and responsibilities do not matter as much as results: a developer may test, perform analysis or think about requirements; an analyst or domain expert can suggest ideas about implementation, and so on.<\/p>\n<h2>Common Pitfalls<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the most elementary error is to equate \u201cgroup\u201d and \u201cteam\u201d, to think that a team results automatically from having people work together<\/li>\n<li>a team should have at least three people (two is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/glossary\/pairing\/\">pair<\/a>), and will generally not exceed ten or so<\/li>\n<li>a single person may be a contributor to more than one \u201cproject\u201d simultaneously, but it is highly unlikely that they will consider themselves as belonging to more than one \u201cteam\u201d at the same time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Origins<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2004: Kent Beck proposes \u201cWhole Team\u201d as the new denomination for the practice previously known as \u201cOn Site Customer\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Academic Publications<\/h2>\n<p>Tuckman\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garfield.library.upenn.edu\/classics1984\/A1984TD25600001.pdf\">conceptual model<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cnorming, forming, storming, performing\u201d) is probably the most often cited with respect to the dynamics of Agile teams.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Group_development\">several<\/a>\u00a0competing and more recent models exist.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/jrankin\/www\/teamwork\/quality_evidence_Hoegl.pdf\">One study<\/a>\u00a0specifically concerned with software teams found suggestive empirical validation of their TWQ (Teamwork Quality) framework as a factor correlated with project outcomes; the TWQ construct is composed of Communication, Coordination, Balance of Member Contributions, Mutual Support, Effort and Cohesion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;team&#8221; in the Agile sense is a small group of people, assigned to the same project or effort, nearly all of them on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8027401,"featured_media":8067461,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[890],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5003333","aa_glossary","type-aa_glossary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_glossary\/5003333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aa_glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8027401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5003333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_glossary\/5003333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8067461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5003333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5003333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5003333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}