Team (Project) Success Factors

Slide from the Agile training deck:

Success criteria for self-organizing teams:

• Small team (7 +/- 2 including PO)
• Dedicated team (100%)
• Clear mission
• Short timeframe
• Proper leadership
• Necessary skills
  • Business Systems Analyst
  • Tester
  • Developer
  • Data Designer/DBA
  • Project Manager
• Good understanding of customer needs (from one or more in the team)
• Assured of getting needed resources
• Empowered to take action
• Basic disciplines in place
• Relatively few dependencies that are difficult to make work (eg, dependent on one or more outside groups)