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For complex projects that span several teams across different offices and time zones, leading such a project is a full-time job for an engineer.
Similar to how TPMs are not allocated to a single engineering team, these Program Managers or Product Managers also don’t tend to have an engineering team, but they work across many teams instead.
Much of Big Tech has recognized how first-class infrastructure and developer tooling make a big difference to the productivity for engineering teams.
This is why 30-40% of engineering often works on platform teams and is why Uber invested heavily in platform teams.
With first-class infrastructure and platforms ready to use, teams can focus on their core work goals, over figuring out how to set up infrastructure, or how to make a service compliant.
Leveraging competent teams comes through giving them freedom to choose how to operate.
This is true for most types of engineering, and there’s good reason why the Skunk Works model of autonomy with reduced bureaucracy, is what many high-performing teams with high-caliber people end up following.
Platform teams is an approach that helps, but there is a lot more to unpack here.
For teams that are expected to innovate, how do you create slack time to make this happen?
What are the processes and structure choices that allow teams to stay nimble and move fast, regardless of organizational size?
The phrase ‘durable excellence’ is from the article Staying on the path to high performing teams by Will Larson.
Teams with conflicting priorities get to execute with fewer interruptions, thanks to the sprint structure giving space for the team to ignore these interruptions.
“Kitchen sink teams” are typical within non-tech companies, where the business has no understanding of how engineering works.
“Kitchen sink teams” occasionally appear in Big Tech, when a product team gets too many responsibilities.
However, as teams are autonomous and empowered, more often than not they instead update their team charter, so team members can immediately say no to work the team does not own.
2. “Forming” and “storming” stages of new teams.
This model very much fits how most engineering teams evolve as well.
This allows teams to reflect on their ways of working.
Over time, teams with autonomy to change their working style usually end up dropping heavyweight Scrum rules they don’t need and develop a custom working style.
Scrum, together with weeks-long sprints can help teams move to more frequent shipping, so long as this frequency is not above the sprint length.
Before the transition, the teams shipped once every few months.
Note that the teams that ended up shipping more frequently than this were ones which decided to drop Scrum, as the process makes little sense with short sprint lengths.
I have observed many organizations introducing Scrum with the expectation that leadership teams would get more visibility into teams, and be able to pinpoint teams that need help.
The Wrong-Order-O-Meter was used to identify teams that were working on items in the wrong order, according to the organization-wide backlog that the product owner organisation had specified.”
My personal view is that in organizations with empowered teams, objectives and key results (OKRs), key performance indicators (KPIs) and goals are far better tools for aligning teams, than rolling out a rigid methodology like Scrum for the sake of reporting.
However, in organizations that are not empowered, where teams and individuals are not autonomous, Scrum might work better than alternatives.
How you run teams should depend on your context.
Choose your approaches depending on whether you direct, mentor or coach and give space to people or teams, based on their capabilities as well.
A relevant quote from a response to my survey: “Recently, C-level executives have started to mandate the ways of working for all teams (everyone needs to follow the same methodology).
And in Match Me, you take the class, divide it into two teams, one team on each side of the playground, and the teacher will take a piece of chalk and just write a number on each of the tires.
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