Moving People Between Teams

So, let’s pretend that you are working someplace where you have two or more teams working on development projects. Furthermore, let’s say that those teams have been in the same configuration (same folks doing the same thing) for 3 or more years. Things might start to get a little stale right? Teams might start to get a bit isolated, each focusing on their own areas of domain expertise. You might find it very difficult to introduce change in this kind of environment – in fact, I can almost guarantee that people will tend to resist change in a scenario like this.

So then I wake up screaming in the middle of the night.

Wait…we’re not talking about me. Really. So this “friend” of mine thinks he has a problem and he wants to stir things up a