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Mike Cohn   (January 27, 2010)





On multi-team development projects, there are significant advantages in having each team organize around the end-to-end delivery of features as opposed to working on separate components. Fewer handoffs reduce waste and integration-related risks. And feature teams have a clearer understanding of the impact of design decisions. However, in some circumstances, component teams offer benefits.

 
Editor's Note: This series is excerpted from Mike Cohn’s new book Succeeding With Agile, which examines critical factors in determining how to structure and manage Scrum-based project teams. In part one, the author explained the importance of keeping teams small. Here, in part two, he recommends orienting each team around the delivery of end-to-end user-visible functionality.
 
When I first began to consult for a certain California-based game studio, its teams were organized around the specific elements and objects that would exist in the video game it was developing. There was a separate team for each character. There were weapons teams, a vehicle team, and so on.



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