
PERSUASIVE: Understands the team dynamics and is persuasive in getting the team to try out new practices that can improve the team’s productivity.PEOPLE’S SKILLS: Has a good relationship with the team and is well-respected for the leadership that they bring.INCLUSIVE: Includes everyone as part of the team and collaborates closely with the PO to make the Product/ Upcoming Sprint Backlog ready.URGENCY TO ACT: Acknowledges the impediments faced and quickly seeks to remove them.


Could it be that besides skills, it is also important to consider the personality traits of the team member as well?


Instead of coaching team members to build up these qualities, I often find it easier to recruit members who already possess certain inherent traits or a propensity to behave in certain ways due to their background or experience. There are certain qualities that a team has to possess to be high-performing - creativity, courage, highly communicative, self-motivated, focused, analytical, etc. Throughout my experience in building cross-functional Scrum Teams, I have noticed that it is insufficient to staff a team with all the skills needed for end-to-end delivery of a value stream if the goal goes beyond reducing waste and delay to make the team high-performing. Similar to team sports such as soccer, a good team is one where various different skill sets needed to win the game are possessed by the various team members. Scrum advocates cross-functional teams, a shared purpose, and a common alignment towards a goal.
