5.b) Explain the key traits that must exist among the people on an agile team and the team itself.
Answer:
key traits must exist among the people on an agile team and the team itself:
Competence: In an agile development (as well as software engineering) context, “competence” encompasses innate talent, specific software-related skills, and overall knowledge of the process that the team has chosen to apply. Skill and knowledge of process can and should be taught to all people who serve as agile team members.
Common focus: Although members of the agile team may perform different tasks and bring different skills to the project, all should be focused on one goal—to deliver a working software increment to the customer within the time promised. To achieve this goal, the team will also focus on continual adaptations (small and large) that will make the process fit the needs of the team.
Collaboration: Software engineering (regardless of process) is about assessing, analyzing, and using information that is communicated to the software team; creating information that will help all stakeholders understand the work of the team; and building information (computer software and relevant databases) that provides business value for the customer. To accomplish these tasks, team members must collaborate—with one another and all other stakeholders.
Decision-making ability: Any good software team (including agile teams) must be allowed the freedom to control its own destiny. This implies that the team is given autonomy decision-making authority for both technical and project issues.
Fuzzy problem-solving ability: Software managers must recognize that the agile team will continually have to deal with ambiguity and will continually be buffeted by change. In some cases, the team must accept the fact that the problem they are solving today may not be the problem that needs to be solved tomorrow. However, lessons learned from any problem-solving