The document discusses achieving swarming in agile teams. Swarming occurs when the entire team works together on a problem, task, or feature. It allows for short feedback loops, continuous integration of work, and increased collaboration. The document provides examples of how teams can identify opportunities for swarming during sprints or when using Kanban methods. Swarming provides benefits like increased innovation, quality through peer reviews and testing, shared knowledge across the team, and higher ownership over deliverables.

1. Achieving Swarming in
Agile Teams
Bojan Spasic - Agile Corner Consulting

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32. In the end...
… benefits of swarming:
- Innovation
- Low handover cost
- Higher quality (continuous introspection, challenges, just-in-time code reviews, just-in-
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- Increased ownership
- Shared knowledge and shared understanding

33. Thank you
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