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Road to Professional Agile Leadership
In my daily work, I’m always in an environment where people work in a so-called ‘team’. That’s probably why I’m often asked to serve as a ‘Team Coach’. And if you take a look at the Scrum guide, you’ll see the term is used no less than 155 times.
Just to put things into perspective. Without the title page, the table of contents and the acknowledgements, the Scrum Guide covers 16 pages. That means on average almost 10 times the word ‘team’ per page.
It’s like you’re always in a team these days. Even if you’re a freelancer with a very specific specialization, you still are a part of a “team”. At least, that’s what it’s called. But it’s not that simple.
A group of people together is not a team
The fundamental units in a learning organization are working groups or teams. Teams as owners of problems, as carriers of ambition, people who need each other to achieve a result. Teams usually are highly interdependent. They plan work, solve problems, make decisions and assess progress in the service of a specific project. Team members need each other to get the work done. On top of that, a team is bigger than the sum…
