Value Streams Applied

Organizing Around Value and Testing the Proposed Teams’ Design...Optimizing the way the organization defines teams and teams of teams to provide value to the users of a system is the focus of this session. We will explore the nature of traditional organization practices and the silos that emerge around both domain and system. In practice, we also see that many organizations go through the process of Value Stream Identification and then that Value Stream design is shelved or not used to drive decision making. We will explore not only identifying a proposed team design, but also how we can test that design against other team design options with minimal disruption to the current state.
Team Topologies Applied...As we seek to organize around value to streamline delivery of a product to customers, we struggle with a key question: How should you organize teams to make best use of a particular competency? Should we create a team of people with this competency and leverage them as a shared service to other teams? Should we allocate one or more team members with this competency to each team? Should we have the people with this competency create a service to be used by other teams? This session will explore the parameters of your organization to provide insights and advice on the team structure that could work best for you.