In this article I want to focus on the distinction between structural and instantiated dependencies. Most of the dependency management recommendations that you encounter deal with instantiated dependencies. However, the larger return on investment will be achieved by…
A feature team is a cross-functional and cross-component team that can pull end-customer-valuable items from the product backlog (i.e., “features”) and complete them. One approach to creating feature teams is to combine people with experience in each of the components…
In a former article about the sprint review I pointed out that the sprint review is a meeting primarily for the benefit of the stakeholders. Yet, over the years I have visited with companies whose stakeholders are often absent at the very meetings where they should…
Many organizations find that when they start to adopt agile at scale (i.e., agile with more than a single team), their team structures need to change. In particular, companies that have historically relied on a large number of component teams as opposed to feature teams…
In my training classes we frequently discuss scaling agile with feature teams versus component teams. To help distinguish between the two types of teams it is important to consider the nature of the product backlog items that you might typically see in the product…