Immersive Learning Dojo /ˈdōˌjō/: An immersive environment where agile teams embark on an intensive learning journey that enables teams to make breakthroughs more rapidly and consistently.
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Gathering metrics for your agile team will help them find opportunities for improvement in both the product and themselves.
DevOps is an approach to enable teams to independently build, test and deploy solutions quickly, safely reliably, and securely to customers.
An agile culture is one that has a bias towards collaboration and cooperation and minimizes autocracy, control, and bureaucracy. It pushes decision-making down the organization to enable teams to take ownership of business outcomes and holds them to account.
You will often hear agile teams described as cross-functional or at least aspiring to be. When a team is defending why they haven’t completed something at the end of a sprint and cries “the development is done, we have passed it over to the testers!”, or “it’s just waiting for dev ops to deploy it to production”…someone will often respond with “I thought you were supposed to be a cross-functional team?”.
So, what is a cross-functional team and how would having a truly cross-functional team help address the situation above?
