The shape of software teams
- The work has a shape Software teams leave patterns behind in the way work moves, waits, concentrates, and returns.
- Expertise as a private island A domain expert can become the team's hidden constraint.
- Trust for the product path A trusted engineer as one person's judgment direction
- If work stays private Large late pull requests reveal more than an individual habit.
- High churn The signal that work is moving through uncertainty.
- Rubber-stamp reviews Fast approvals hiding judgment.
- Self-merging Self contained evaluation.
- When helping takes over Help can remove the struggle through which capability grows.
- The quiet high performer Steady contribution can disappear beneath the signals a team usually rewards.