In this article we are going to look at a few of the things that we have been thinking about lately, and why they matter to us as a team and to the people we work with every day.
This is something that comes up a lot. It tends to be the kind of thing that people ask about when they are getting started, and it is also the kind of thing that is easy to get wrong if you are not careful about it from the beginning.
That said, there are a number of considerations here. They are not always obvious, and they do not always present themselves in the order that you would expect them to, which is part of what makes this such an interesting area to work in.
It also means that the answer is rarely simple. However, we have found that with enough attention to the details, most teams are able to arrive at something that works reasonably well for their particular situation and constraints.
Therefore the approach we recommend is mostly about being deliberate. These are the habits that tend to separate the teams that succeed from the teams that struggle, at least in our experience working with a broad range of organisations.