Cross Functional Teams with Mobile (Android & IOS) + Web Developers
Hi everyone,
A few months ago, we used to work with separate teams for Mobile and Web development.
Once the Product is the same, the company decided to put it together in one unique team, so now, I have teams composed by the following skills: (2 Android Devs, 2 iOS Devs, 3 Frontend/Backend Web Devs, 1 Designer, 1 Web QA, 1 Mobile QA) + a PO and a Scrum Master == 10 people.
Is this setup a common way other companies does, or usually, companies uses one separate team for IOS/Android and another one team for Web Dev?
Having this mixed skills teams, also let me have other problems, for example, if one of them (android, ios or web) have some problem, the others can't help to save the currrent sprint.
Thanks for support friends!
Does the team think this is an efficient method of organization? What impediments are they seeing? What benefits do they see?
Since your "company decided" has anyone stated what benefits were expected? What problems were being solved? Who raised those problems?
Your post provokes more questions than answers for me.
Is this setup a common way other companies does, or usually, companies uses one separate team for IOS/Android and another one team for Web Dev?
The answer to that question is "it depends on the company". I've worked in companies that worked in both of these ways at the same time because it was left up to the Scrum Teams to decide the best manner to organize. For one Product, they would organize in separate teams while with other Products it made more sense to be a single team. I have never seen "the perfect way".