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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based.

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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based.

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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based.

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Communities of Practice Tools that Your Team Will Love

Evolution4all

Blogs mostly focused on personal or collective reflections and opinions, while wikis are an open source and searchable knowledge base about various niches and topics. Despite their differences, both types of web-based collaboration software serve the purpose of collecting and collating information that may offer value to a community.

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How Communities of Practice and Leadership Build Your Workforce Leadership Skills

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Now it can be a community of Product Owners looking for a new approach to work with their Scrum Teams or a network of Developers sharing their new scripts to automate their work. Without going extra technical with it, CoPs are self-organising learning bodies capable of growing the knowledge capital of your company.

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Communities of Practice Success Stories: How World-Class Companies Run Their CoPs

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The company has what it’s called “ engine high performance CoP ” which aim to develop and share technical knowledge among 150 car engineers. Just like a typical CoP, members meet and interact on a regular basis, discussing issues and collaborating to build a knowledge base on how to build more reliable and better-performing car engines.

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5 Communities of Practice Rules To Improve Your Company Knowledge Capital

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In the long term, a systematic collection of knowledge should be built which members can easily access. This can be in the form of proceedings, wikis, knowledge-base, internal company blogs, and archives. As your company CoPs continuously grow and evolve, so is the knowledge capital of your company.

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