On this episode, Brian Orlando and Om Patel discuss splitting teams in Agile Software Development. When should you split, how to split the team, when you may not want to split and times when you may want to un-split. Un-split isn't even a real word...

0:00 Intro
0:24 Should we Split?
2:54 Length of the Team Stand-Up
6:25 Ideal Team Sizing
9:01 Real Story of a Team Split
11:12 Team Split - the Undesirable Norm
13:14 Calling any Maintenance Developers!
13:42 Going Back to Forming
15:56 Balance of Changing Team Members
17:59 Realities of Productivity and Extra Team Members
19:25 Pragmatic Team Sizing and Splitting
24:25 Leadership and Vision
27:07 Team Split - How Do We Do It?
31:35 Brian's Clarifying Segue
33:00 More on How to Split
35:33 Consulting/Shared Team Members
37:24 How NOT to Split
38:56 Management-Directed Team Splits
41:51 A Radical Approach
45:03 Consolidating Two Teams into One
47:26 Tracking Unimportant Things
50:03 Looking Out for Only Yourself
52:17 More on Team Consolidation
55:10 Avoiding Consolidation for the Wrong Reasons
57:46 Daily Scrum and the Scrum Guide
59:15 Meeting Tool Wish-List
1:01:07 Wrap-Up
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Agile Podcast E35 - Splitting Teams