Q&A - One team for several projects? What to do?
I’ve got a good question from Cairo Noleto, regarding Scrum, which I’ll answer here:
“In Scrum, a Team is always mapped in only one project. Is it possible to manage several projects with a single Team? That’s something that happens quite a lot in the real world, specially in small organizations. How does Scrum deals with it?” - Cairo Noleto, Add4 Comunicação, Brazil
One thing which is crucial in a correct Scrum adoption is to avoid (and that’s a part of the Scrum Master job) that the team is interrupted during the duration of a Sprint. If the Team members have their effort splitted over several projects, then their concentration will be interrupted and cut off several times per day!
For a Scrum approach, the right thing to do is change from a team such as:
Team A: 8 members, working in projects P1, P2 and P3
…to, for instance….
Team A: 3 members, working in project P1
Team B: 3 members, working in project P2
Team C: 3 members, working in project P3
More questions? Feel free to ask, to ricardomestre at fastmail dot fm.
