A scrum master needs to set up a team for a long-term project that has the potential for significant budgeting and tracking overhead. What type of team should the scrum master set up?

Disciplined Agile recommends forming long-standing (stable) teams for work that will run for an extended period and demands sustained budgeting, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Long-standing teams reduce initiation/ shutdown costs, speed onboarding, and give more reliable velocity data for financial forecasting than temporary project teams or ad-hoc service groups.

B. Cross-functional describes skill breadth, not team longevity or cost-tracking efficiency.
C. Project teams are assembled only for the project’s duration, then disbanded—reintroducing overhead the question seeks to avoid.
D. Shared-services teams provide specialized, on-demand help; they are not dedicated to a single long-term endeavor.

1. Ambler, S.; Lines, M. “Choose Your WoW”, PMI Press, 2020, pp. 37-39 (section 2.2.1 Long-lived Teams).

2. PMI. “Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Participant Guide”, v1.1, 2022, Module 3, slide 31.