ABSTRACT
As the transition progresses, you’ll find yourself forming and reforming Scrum teams on a fairly regular basis. Properly launched, Scrum teams can avoid many of the start-up difficulties that new teams face by recognizing the typical issues that new teams face and then finding ways to mitigate or eliminate those stumbling blocks as quickly and as early as possible. While every organization and culture is different, this chapter will review many good practices that you can employ to improve the initial start-up of Scrum teams. I also recommend reviewing the retrospective findings from new teams during the first three or four Sprints in order to get an idea of the typical types of problems that they are facing and amending your start-up procedures appropriately.
