Team members not fully allocated

How many times have you been on an Agile team where there are team members that are not fully allocated to the iteration/Sprint? Has it been frustrating? Do you see it as an impediment? but most importantly, how do you deal with such situation? Every Agile implementation and in every organization you will run into this situation. Certain team members that are either shared across multiple teams, or having to work on support items while in the middle of a sprint/iteration, or there is this person that everyone needs on the team because there is only one of him in the organization - in my situation this is the integration/middle-ware guru. Well, you are not alone. We have all been...

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