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.
4. Silos and how motion is bad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140/lightbox/
5. Why Herman needed feature teams
http://thepauls.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/pass_the_baton.jpg
6. Product Management
Development
Test and QA
Localization/Documentation
GUI
Feature team creation and roles
7. Winds of Change
“It is not necessary
to change, survival is
not mandatory.”
- W. Edwards Deming
http://www.cpsu.org.au/multiattachments/18769/Image/change-management1.jpg
8. So what now? Where to go to?
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/48249
9. Why feature teams were no longer enough
http://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/green-puzzle.jpg
13. What is a squad?
Product Management
Feature SQUAD GUI
Feature SQUAD
Feature Test and QA Feature
SQUAD A SQUAD B
Development
Localization/Documentation
14. Herman’s challenges with squads
http://worldtranslation.org/uploads/Image/News/Sport/climbing.jpg
15. Herman’s conclusion
“Learning is not
compulsory…
neither is survival.”
- W. Edwards Deming
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
9v34e833GAI/TwvEJBG5IZI/AAAAAAAAAIA/J8xIBUb6HQo/s1600/Zen_stones_Early_Evening_by_HollowIchigoBanki.jpg
16. Thank you for your attention!
http://westlothiankarateassociation.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bigstock_karate_boy_bowing_149219.jpg
17. Contact Information
Sven Schnee Agile Project Manager
Twitter: @MrSnow76
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sven-schnee/27/932/5a5
Luis-Miguel Goncalves Agile Project Manager
Twitter: @lgoncalves1979
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/luismsg
Daniel Catalina Technical Project Manager
Twitter: @_dancat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-catalina/1/545/552