During a retro:
Development team: As we're at one main developer, it's a lot on him. How can we mitigate that risk?
Me: .... Anyone know what T shaped people are?
Team: .... no.
Me: The idea is we have one area of specialty, plus a bunch of other skills that you can learn from each other. Testers can learn development, and vice versa. BA can learn dev and test, too! Everyone can learn from everyone.
Dev Team: But, we'd need to get it cleared by management...
Me: Sure, but let me handle that. It's no problem.
GUY WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, over the phone: LET ME DO YOU A FAVOR. If you want to learn anything, come to me.
...
Me, hangs up phone: Feel free to learn from each other. You do not have to go to that guy.
Like, JFC, shut the fuck up. They were so close to team cohesion, and I SEE the moment self-organization was taken from them. I could see there hearts break.
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Extensive cross training has been shown to require a bit of extra time to learn basic skills and get past the period where you suck at everything, but it's also been shown in the long run to vastly increase the flexibility of the whole team. That saves time in the long run.
ReplyDeleteSo I feel that this is one of those things that's really obvious if you look further ahead than next week, but seems insane if you don't.