
ARTICLE
High Performing Team: A Reality or An Illusion?
By Sandip Rananavare, Agile Coach, Change Consultant, Trainer (Scaled Agile, Disciplined Agile) and Certified Training Partner at Enterprise Agility University.
“Hey Sandy, do you mind sharing your ATP (Acceptance Test Plan) with me? I am about to start developing a module for speech recognition for our product”, said Ash.
Ash has recently joined the R&D (Research & Development) department of one of the leading telecom product development giants. He has noticed that there is something different in this team. No one is afraid to ask questions no matter how intelligent or how silly they appear. Everyone has got own way of looking at things and different perspectives but would not hesitate to share it.
Also, Ash has noticed that even though they are part of one team, quite often developers and system verification engineers work in a pair. You can see them always talking with each other, sitting next to each other. Many times, people used to joke that they are shadows of each other and there’s something wrong if they aren’t found together.
Sometimes you can see heated discussions, emotionally charged arguments over what’s expected by the potential customer in terms of the outcome. However, most of the times
these debates, arguments resulted in a better outcome without the need of their leader, Rajesh, to intervene.