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bliki: ActivityOriented
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Think of traditional organizations in which business analysts, developers, testers, and operations staff operate in separate functional teams. These teams are dependent on each other at a very low level. Even though they may be working toward the same goal, they will inevitably have different priorities. They will also have different processes and
... See moreJim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
Agile organizations normally have wide responsibilities within cross-functional teams but narrow responsibilities for each team.
Pini Reznik • Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation
if the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) gains traction, then the company will likely receive funding and a growth period will occur. Invariably, that means more people will join the team and the vision from the initial engineer needs to be shared.
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more
Evolution of Monolithic Systems
Britt Gage added
While each of these may be worthy activities, the chances of solving the business problems that the cross‐functional teams were created to solve are not high.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
amazon.com
Structure the organization by using real teams as the basic organizational building block. Each team is (1) self-managing, (2) cross-functional, (3) co-located, and (4) long-lived.
Bas Vodde • Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
Traditional organizations form a project group with exactly the right set of skills and people for each new feature request. But organizations with long-lived teams don’t re-organize but instead split the work and give it to an existing team that can learn and adapt.