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Because the squad has engineers, designers, and testers in one room, they rarely need to wait on other teams.

Agile Team Organisation: Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds

Groups based on shared competencies across squads (e.g., all UI designers across all squads meeting to maintain platform consistency).

The modern corporate usage of squads was largely popularized by the Spotify model in 2012. Struggling to scale without losing its disruptive startup culture, the streaming giant reorganized its engineering departments into small, nimble teams. The Ecosystem

At its core, a squad is a small, cross-functional, and highly autonomous group of people organized around a specific mission.