team(s) composed of specialists in a given technical (or product) domain; they help bridge the capability gap.
enabling team
3 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
Enabling team: helps a stream-aligned team to overcome obstacles. Also detects missing capabilities.
— Remote Team Interactions Workbook, in “Introduction”, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Enabling team: helps a stream-aligned team overcome obstacles and shore up missing or lacking capabilities.
— The Value Flywheel Effect, in “Chapter 14: The Frictionless Dev Experience”, David Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O'Reilly
See also team · stream-aligned team · Brooks’s law · cognitive load · collaboration mode · complicated-subsystem team
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