What does it mean for a Development Team to be cross-functional?
A. The Development Team includes not only developers but also business analysts, architects, and testers.
B. The Development Team includes cross-skilled individuals who are able to contribute to do what is necessary to deliver an increment of software.
C. Developers on the Development Team work closely with business analysts, architects, developers and testers who are not on the team.
D. The Development Team is a virtual team drawing from separate teams of business analysts, architects, developers and testers.
an increment of value
increment of software doesn’t exist
martin, my question will be, how can the team be cross-skilled if the individual is not cross-skilled? For a team to be a cross-skilled team, the individual has to be cross-skilled isn’t it?
From Scrum Guide, chapter “Scrum Team”:
“Scrum Teams are cross-functional, meaning the members have all the skills necessary to create value
each Sprint.”
So I assume B is correct.
B is correct as kat said. The answer is broader then A.
A is correct , there are no ”cross-skilled individuals” it is cross-skilled team !!
You got it right! Scrum Guide mentions about cross-functional teams meaning a group of people having the necessary skills to turn a PBI into an valuable usable increment (like UX providing the wireframes, QA doing the testing, DEVs doing the coding part, each one has his skills, all together are providing the necessary to create the increment)
So? Which one is correct? A or B?
B