Agile Team Dynamics and Collaboration Flashcards
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What is the purpose of a daily standup (daily scrum) in fostering team collaboration?
Answer: To synchronize the team's work, identify blockers, and adapt the day's plan
The daily standup synchronizes the team around progress, surfaces impediments early, and enables quick coordination to adapt the plan for the day.
What does 'co-location' mean for Agile teams, and why is it valued?
Answer: Team members physically working in the same location, enabling richer communication and faster collaboration
Co-location means the team works in the same physical space, which enables face-to-face communication, osmotic information sharing, and faster decision-making.
How should an Agile team handle a situation where one member has significantly more work than others?
Answer: The team swarms to help the overloaded member so the sprint goal is met collectively
Agile promotes collective ownership, so the team swarms on overloaded tasks to ensure sprint goals are met as a group effort.
What is 'collective code ownership' in Agile engineering practices?
Answer: Any team member can modify any part of the codebase, shared responsibility for quality
Collective code ownership means any team member can change any part of the codebase, distributing responsibility and preventing knowledge silos.
What is the role of trust in an Agile team?
Answer: Trust enables teams to self-organize, collaborate openly, and take risks without fear of blame
Trust is foundational in Agile — it enables self-organization, honest retrospectives, collective decision-making, and a safe environment for experimentation.
What is a 'team working agreement' in Agile?
Answer: A set of norms and expectations the team creates collaboratively to guide how they work together
A team working agreement is a collaboratively created set of norms — such as communication preferences and meeting rules — that guides how the team operates.