Feature Teams - Collaboratively Building Products from READY to DONE
Add to calendarWe will describe our journey from a process where design/planning work was performed away from development to one where small cross-functional Feature Teams self-organized to complete design, planning, and construction within the same sprint. Each team member is involved in getting READY, planning, executing and being DONE. The results we observed are an increase in team morale, more predictable results and accumulation of less debt, while maintaining a constant velocity. Our process is a deviation from the established approach where upfront work needs to be ready before starting a sprint.
Andre Frank and Charles Hartel from Liquidnet with the support of Jeff Patton, Agile coach to Liquidnet will describe the background and process changes made after implementing Feature Teams to their project.
It will take about 30 Minutes to review the extensive learning achieved by the team to transition from an asynchronous sprint rhythm where Design and BA worked ahead of the development team to fully integrated sprint.
There will be 10 Minutes for question and discussion.
To outline:
1.) Intro
2.) Explain root cause analysis of team’s problem
3.) Describe transition from asynchronous sprint cycles to have dedicated feature teams
4.) Review initial pros, cons, comments and metrics from the sprint retrospectives
5.) Present conclusion of feature teams
6.) Q&A
- Learn how a project team within a company adopted and scaled agile rapidly
- Learn how people stepped up to a leadership role with the introduction of Feature Teams
- Learn how integrated teams (UI Designers, Business Analysts and development team) works in sync without anyone front running work outside a sprint
- Learn how this approach lead to a more efficient work style, less debt, better predictability and higher team moral
