Team Design Patterns – Feature teams with mixed-composite skills
This article is about the third and final alternative to the Ideal Team Structure – feature teams with mixed-composite skill teams.
Team Design Patterns – Wrapping it up
Pulling all the ideas together from this article series, I want to leave you with a couple of key thoughts when you are trying to design your agile organization:
Naeem Hussain
Team Design Patterns – Feature teams supported by component teams
In the last article, I outlined the Large Feature Team pattern as a first alternative to the Ideal Team Structure (ITS) if your organization cannot make the immediate leap to the ITS when ...
Brian
Team Design Patterns – Feature Teams and Component Teams
I spent time outlining the guiding principles for organizing agile teams in my last article. With the challenge of delivering business intent where changes to 10’s of platforms / components are ...
Brian
Team Design Patterns – Ideal Team Structure (ITS)
Before I get on with describing the less-than-ideal organizational models, I thought it would be useful to spend some time describing what the Ideal Team Structure looks like to paint the picture of ...
Brian
Agile Organizational Design – Agile Software Delivery
Transforming to an agile software delivery model is filled with lots of challenges, especially when you are talking about solutions delivered in an organization of a large scale. In these large ...
Brian
SAFe for Small Value Streams – The Program Level
When considering the Program Level of SAFe applied to Small Value Streams (SVS's - see the first article in the series for an introduction to SVS's), I will describe SAFe elements that "work out of ...
Brian
SAFe for Small Value Streams – The Team Level
One of the great parts of the SAFe framework is the emphasis on usage of industry standard practices like Scrum and XP (Continuous Integration, Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, and ...
Brian
SAFe for Small Value Streams – Business Intent Flow and Organizing to Deliver Program Level Features
Small Value Stream (SVS) pattern organizations have the largest portion of their product development flow starting locally with intent generated from within each SVS. Therefore, we can optimize the ...