The 7 traits of my “ideal” team

The best teams I worked in or know of, have the following traits and apply the accompanying practices.

Tradeoffs between cross-functional business teams and specialist teams

and where to use them

Pro cross-functional business teams

• no handovers with info and time loss

Velocity vs. Cycle time — or ‘How to predict how much work will get done by a given time’

Both velocity and cycle time make predictions based on completed work in the past. This approach is sometimes referred to as ‘yesterday’s weather’. For the remainder of this…