Are we actually a team?

Are we a team or are we a few people who happen to share the same sprint board and standup meeting?

Are we an old neighborhood asking each other for flour, or do we just live near each other?

What would we lose if we split up into a bunch of one-person teams? If the answer is anything less than “OMG, everything! We would lose everything!” then the team is dysfunctional.

There’s more to making a team than putting people together.


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