Agile Teams as Black Boxes
Learn why treating a Scrum team as similar to a black box is an important Agile practice.
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The Agile practice of Scrum explicitly treats the Scrum team as a “black box.” If you are an organizational leader, you are allowed to see the inputs to your teams and the outputs from your teams, but you are not supposed to be very concerned with the inner workings of the teams.
In Scrum, this idea is implemented by saying that the team takes on a defined amount of work (the sprint goal) at the beginning of each sprint. The team commits to deliver the work— no matter what—by the end of the ...