How many members did the best Scrum teams you worked with have? It’s an age-old question amongst practitioners who are new to Agile methodologies: “What is the optimal number of members in a team?”. The Scrum Guide suggests that a team “should be small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint, typically 10 or fewer people”. But it doesn’t provide any evidence for this. Fortunately, this is a question that can be answered with data. So we scoured...
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How many members did the best Scrum teams you worked with have? It’s an age-old question amongst practitioners who are new to Agile methodologies: “What is the optimal number of members in a team?”. The Scrum Guide suggests that a team “should be small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint, typically 10 or fewer people”. But it doesn’t provide any evidence for this. Fortunately, this is a question that can be answered with data. So we scoured...
5 Effective Ways To Increase Management Support For Agile
The Liberators Podcast
21 minutes
1 year ago
5 Effective Ways To Increase Management Support For Agile
In our workshops and classes, participants often lament how difficult it is to get “management to do their part”. And my experience in this area has also been one of many struggles. Some managers get Agile and Scrum. But others seem to have made a hobby out of making things as hard as possible. Many scientific studies have also emphasized “management support” as one of the most critical, or even the most critical, factors to successful Agility. So what can do we as Agilists other than compla...
The Liberators Podcast
How many members did the best Scrum teams you worked with have? It’s an age-old question amongst practitioners who are new to Agile methodologies: “What is the optimal number of members in a team?”. The Scrum Guide suggests that a team “should be small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint, typically 10 or fewer people”. But it doesn’t provide any evidence for this. Fortunately, this is a question that can be answered with data. So we scoured...
