why feature teams are not enough!
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Your developers tell you: “My job is done!”, but nothing works. Or every component works great and passes all the tests, but they don’t integrate with each together at all. Does this sound familiar to you? Have you ever heard your teams say that they are waiting on other people? Have they ever failed to deliver because of this? We would like to talk about how we used to have feature teams that were unable to deliver features. After realizing that having feature teams alone was not enough we started forming feature squads. And this helped improve communication and productivity a lot, they actually started to deliver valuable features! In our presentation we will show you when having feature teams is not enough anymore. We will show you how we improved the concept of feature teams by introducing feature squads, and what results we achieved by doing this. We will also explain what feature squads are, how we created them and what problems we experienced while doing this. Join us to learn from our failures but also our successes! Learn how you may increase the throughput of your team and achieve more with the same people.TRANSCRIPT
Why feature teams are not enough
Super SoftThe Story of Herman – an agile coach
I’m done but nothing works?
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In the beginning…
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Silos and how motion is bad
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Why Herman needed feature teams
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Prod
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Feature team creation and roles
Dev
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Test
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QA
Loca
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Winds of Change
“It is not necessary to change, survival is not mandatory.”
- W. Edwards Deming
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So what now? Where to go to?
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/48249
Why feature teams were no longer enough
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Squads
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Silos again
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Why Squads
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What is a squad?
GUI
Test and QA
Development
Localization/Documentation
Feature SQUAD A
Feature SQUAD B
Product Management
Feat
ure
SQ
UAD
Feat
ure
SQ
UAD
Herman’s challenges with squads
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Herman’s conclusion
“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.”
- W. Edwards Deming
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Thank you for your attention!
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Contact Information
Sven Schnee Agile Project ManagerTwitter: @MrSnow76LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sven-schnee/27/932/5a5
Luis-Miguel Goncalves Agile Project ManagerTwitter: @lgoncalves1979LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/luismsg
Daniel Catalina Technical Project ManagerTwitter: @_dancatLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-catalina/1/545/552