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Everyone is still siloed

Everyone is still siloed

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Everyone is still siloed

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- Most of the time, when a team forms, it's made up of people that are specialists in one area. For example, you might have people that have been focused solely on being developers or testers. This is known as having siloed skills. A foundational tenant of Agile is that the team have all the needed skills to complete all the work brought to it. Often, you'll need team members to learn additional skills so there are no bottlenecks in the flow of work through your team. Commonly called creating T-shaped resources, this is the process where each team member learns additional skills to help the team become cross-functional. So how do you do that? There are a few simple techniques you can do to help your team get to this state. First, observe the work and note which skills are most rare on your team, perhaps those where only one person has the skill. This is where work bottlenecks or slowdowns on your team will occur. Now that you have this information, create a skill matrix. I've provided…

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