Chapter 1 - A new approach for complex problems: A Scrum Team often gets some production support requirements in addition to the work in the Sprint Backlog. The Team adopted their team composition and created a sub team to support these adhoc requirements.
a) It is okay to create sub teams within the Scrum team.
b)It is not okay because there can't be sub teams within a scrum team.
c) The team can complete the production support as one team, since it is high priority and then come back to the original sprint work

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A Scrum Team often gets some production support requirements in addition to the work in the Sprint Backlog. The Team adopted their team composition and created a sub team to support these adhoc requirements.
a) It is okay to create sub teams within the Scrum team. 
b)It is not okay because there can't be sub teams within a scrum team. 
c) The team can complete the production support as one team, since it is high priority and then come back to the original sprint work

Avinash Upadhyay · Accepted Answer

b)It is not okay because there can't be sub teams within a scrum team. 
Every Sprint is meant for delivering a valuable and useful product increment as required in the Sprint Goal. If an outside item is raking the teams time, it is treated as an issue. If the team is forced by any authority, the scrum master needs to coach them about how Scrum works and  facilitates removing this issue.

Chapter 1 - A new approach for complex problems

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