Just heard someone complain that "one of our...devs...was split off 50% to support another team." That's a huge dysfunction on many levels. First of all, highly-functioning teams are a stable cohesive unit. 1/4
Would you split someone off of a football team mid game to "help" another team? It's a nonsensical notion. If some outside force is pulling people off teams and injecting them onto other teams, you're not following basic principles. 2/4
The notion of a "self-organizing team" is exactly what it says. The team decides on its members. External management jerking around the teams against their will is the opposite of Agile. 3/4
The underlying problem of thinking of people as interchangeable cogs ("resources") that you can move around like game pieces is inhuman. 4/4
