A large, corporate organization is forced to hire new team members in a geographically remote location from the current team. The manager of the department is concerned about the team not being colocated. What behavior would indicate the team is not working well together?

Agile development relies on rapid learning and adaptation, which are enabled by short feedback cycles. When a team, especially a distributed one, is not working well together, communication becomes less efficient. This inefficiency directly leads to delays in getting feedback on work items, reviewing code, or making decisions. An increase in the duration of feedback cycles is therefore a clear, measurable indicator of degraded collaboration and team performance, directly impacting the team's ability to deliver value and respond to change.

A. While more emails can be a symptom of poor communication, it is a secondary indicator. The impact on feedback cycles is a more direct measure of team effectiveness.
C. An increase in velocity is typically a positive sign of productivity, not an indicator that the team is working poorly together.
D. Requesting to move meetings is a constructive, adaptive behavior for a distributed team, showing an attempt to collaborate effectively, not a sign of dysfunction.

1. Project Management Institute. (2017). Agile Practice Guide. Section 4.3.3, Distributed Teams, pp. 63-64. The guide highlights the challenges of communication and collaboration in distributed teams and the importance of overcoming them to maintain agility.

2. Poppendieck, M., & Poppendieck, T. (2003). Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Addison-Wesley. The authors emphasize the principle of "Amplify Learning," which is achieved through short feedback loops. An increase in this duration is a sign of waste and inefficiency.