Posts Tagged ‘Teams’

The software developers in a well-known Scrum team have undergone a transition from generalists to specialists in former times. They have been responsible for no specific parts of the software system. Every developer was assigned to the next high priority tasks regardless of knowledge and experience. Combined with classical waterfall project management, solo programming, missing code reviews, and missing unit testing, the resulting quality of the system was extremely low. There was a vast lack of knowledge of the old legacy code the team was working with. To compensate that knowledge all parts of the system were assigned to specific developers - a step that turned them from generalists to specialists.   Instead of moving out of the waterfall into Scrum and introducing ...