The Agile School

The idea of working in iterations producing potentially shippable software is very powerful. Scrum has some very simple rules to help achieve this. Scrum advocates that team size should be 7 (+/- 2). This works most of cases; almost all the software’s can be developed by teams of this size. One + One = Two Scrum Team = One Big product team What if I have to increase the team size? My project is complex and I need at least 12 people to deliver the product. Now this becomes interesting. In some cases I have seen such one big scrum team. Historical data has shown that productivity decreases as the team size increase from the optimum number of 7. So what should I do? Split the team into two. On what basis can I split the team? You can divide the teams into feature, service or subsystem teams; empower these teams to do their jobs. There could be some additional attributes to PBI to identify this linking. Team can work on such PBI from the common PBI list. So there could be te...