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Scrum Team

Last post 04:12 am January 16, 2017 by Nguyen Nga
3 replies
Nguyen Nga
04:35 am January 4, 2017

Hi All

I have 2 questions about scrum team, pls share me your knowledge

1. Self-organizing means that teams can choose how best to accomplish their work

Question: Are there any framework/template so that team can base on them to choose the best way to accomplish ?
The reason I ask this is: If the teams are allowed to be free to choose the way to accomplish, there will be some risk:
- They can lack of some steps/activities which have been proved to be necessary by previous projects
- They can not inherit the lesson/practice from previous projects

2. Cross- functional that mean teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team
Question: Is cross-functional
- on the team (mean: including >1 person; these person have all competencies)
- or on the member ? (mean: one member have all competencies)

Many thanks

Ian Mitchell
12:40 am January 5, 2017

Teams may organize into a Scrum Studio which allows experience to be pooled and shared.

All of the competencies for accomplishing a particular team's work must be found in that team. There are distinct advantages in having each team member trained in more than one of those competencies.

Sanjay Saini
05:22 am January 9, 2017


1. Each project is different w.r.t. features, tools, technologies and most importantly the People. We cant assume that if something had worked in Project A is going to work in Project B too. Also it doesn't mean that everyone in an organization should re-invent the wheel. Its upto organization to decide how it would like to share the practices/learnings across different projects.

2. As a team (NOT individual) they should be cross-functional so that they can deliver an Increment every Sprint.

Nguyen Nga
04:12 am January 16, 2017

I understood.
Many thanks

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