Someone has a brilliant idea. A search for the right people that can make that idea real starts. The team is formed around the idea. At some point, the team has grown and it has to be split into two. But everyone is working around making the brilliant idea alive.
This is the easy way to define a product in agile frameworks. Starting from scratch, and focusing on the big picture. The team is fully responsible for the product. When multiple teams appear, they’re homogenous. Scaling the organization, until some point, is trivial.
The organization can focus on the most valuable things to do. Any of the teams is able to work on any of the work items in the backlog. Of course, one team can be faster in doing some thing or area than another team. But either team can make it.
Individuals have their strengths, but they’re willing to go outside of their comfort zone and see what sort of scary world is out there. They’re working as a team. Sometimes that even means asking someone else for help. Crazy, right?
But what happens when an existing organization is going thru an agile transformation?