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Three Strategies to Build Cross-functional Teams and Why You Need Them for Agile

Gorilla Logic

Traditional waterfall development teams tend to be organized around single skills, such as developers, QA, UI/UX, and more, with each single-skill team working on a part of the project and then passing it on to the next team, until the value is finally delivered to the customer. Delayed feedback. Accrual of tech debt.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Your team is building the UI, and several other teams are building the back-end microservices. Here’s the UI mock-up the design department made,” Claudine says, “and Ramonita put stories in the issue tracker with all the requirements. For many users, the UI is the product. Don’t confuse graphic design with UX design.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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Delivering Continuous Value: Lessons Learned About Software Delivery In Our First 20 Years

Gorilla Logic

We always coach our teams and clients, helping them on their Agile journey to becoming self-managed and high-performing teams.” —Alice Zárate, Lead Scrum Master. “ It’s the combination of great technical expertise, leadership, and collaboration that enables us to build strong relationships and deliver amazing results.”

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO

Leadership worked to identify process owners within the business to become product owners within product families that are essentially owned by IT, according to Gary Jeter, Trust One’s executive vice president and chief technology officer. IT Leadership, IT Strategy You will continue to be doing this going forward.

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Kick start your Agile Transformation Journey (and be a Digital Disruptor)

Capgemini

Coaching can be an effective tool here, but bringing on board new talent is also useful, especially top and middle managers. This needs to change, but few leadership teams are really open to reinventing their governance because it challenges the balance of power.

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The Challenges and Traps of Architecting Sociotechnical Systems

Strategic Tech

Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy. Dedicated Frontend Teams vs Vertical Slices We can have a dedicated UI team who own the entire frontend (or internal UI). In my experience, a clean UI separation is rarely achievable.