Key Principle: Increase Team Capacity via Individual Capacity
Explore how increasing individual team members' role density and systematic career pathing through a Professional Development Ladder help build cohesive expertise and improve Agile team capacity. Understand the importance of balancing technology, development practices, and domain knowledge to create flexible, high-performing software teams.
Most software professionals’ career progression can be described as pinball—bouncing project by project from one technology to another, from one methodology to another. Professional experience of any kind is valuable, but this pattern is a prescription for ad hoc accumulation of scattered experiences rather than a systematic program for building cohesive expertise and capability over time.
Increase role density
Cross-functional Agile teams depend on having technical staff who perform well in ...