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 scientific studies on team size and also performed analyses on data from ~2.000 Agile teams to determine the optimal team size. We report the findings and their implications.
Read the full post here:
https://medium.com/the-liberators/5-effective-ways-to-increase-management-support-for-agile-4dccf57bf5e6
We're building Columinity to help teams improve continuously based on scientific insights:
https://columinity.com
Check out our webshop for tons of powerful exercises and workshops to run with your team(s):
https://shop.theliberators.com
The music for episodes 91 and onward was written and produced for us by Basanite. The music for episodes 1-90 was acquired through Yummy Sounds. Post-production by Jasper Huiskamp.
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