As teams grow, organizations often draw a distinction between feature teams, which deliver the visible business value to the user, and component teams, which manage shared work. Steve Berczuk says that this distinction can help organizations be more productive and scale effectively, but he recognizes that not all shared work fits into this model. Some work is best handled by “specialists,” that is people with unique skills. Although teams composed entirely of T-shaped people is ideal, certain skills are hard to come by and are used irregularly across an organization. Since these...
Steve Berczuk
Fitbit
A principal engineer at Fitbit, Steve Berczuk leads a quality infrastructure and engineering team which builds tools and provides coaching to help teams deliver features effectively. Steve is a software developer and manager who is passionate about helping teams deliver effectively by helping to solve technical, process, and people management problems. A ScrumMaster and agile software configuration management expert, Steve is a frequent contributor to TechWell and author of Software Configuration Management Patterns. Read Steve's articles and his blog and follow him on Twitter @sberczuk.