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Products Over Projects
Inverse-Conway-Maneuver: How to speed up product development teams successfully
Tobias Soffnerthoughtworks.com
Autonomous teams should work toward assigned customer value outcomes, rather than being assigned tasks. What to work on is, generally, given to the team through the prioritization of initiatives in the LVT and the backlog. The team, which should include a product person, collaboratively prioritizes what it will work on during the next iteration to
... See moreDavid Robinson • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
The way out of this dilemma is to manage the four kinds of work differently, allowing strong cross-functional teams to develop around each area. When products move from phase to phase, they are handed off between teams. Employees can choose to move with the product as part of the handoff or stay behind and begin work on something new.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The signs of project teams are plain to see: teams of mercenaries (order takers), slow velocity, little to no innovation, ballooning technical debt, no ownership of results, orphaned projects and blame directed everywhere.