A baseline level of competency should be defined and understood by an organization as the minimum skillset needed across the team/org. It is difficult to define, but the definition should be based on the shape and structure of the team network, and understood to change over time. This is in context of contagions as ideas that spread through a team (or network), if there are [[Engineering Teams Are Just Networks#^5or3ra|wide bridges]] between nodes, the contagion can spread more easily. An example of a contagion would be a new technology. ## Source ![[Engineering Teams Are Just Networks#^8doeqg]] ![[Engineering Teams Are Just Networks#^8doeqg]] ![[Engineering Teams Are Just Networks#^ff0fr2]]