AgileData Teams
Building a self organising team is one of the key factors required to crafting your own AgileData Way of Working. Creating a team with T-Skills, adopting agile patterns and helping the team through the process of forming, storming and norming is a massive challenge.
Teams
Scaling Team Design
The problem is with scale comes complexity A team of one is the most efficient team to get data work done, but only if that one person is an expert in every step of that data work and has enough time to complete all the work on their own. Unfortunately these people...
Team Design Patterns
Common Design Patterns There are several common patterns for defining organisational and team design structures. Functional Design, where the structure is based around specific functions, such as marketing, finance, or operations. Each function has its own team or...
Skills vs Roles
It is a silo problem When we structure our teams based on roles not skills we strike a bunch of problems that are related to the anti-patterns roles seem to invoke. Team members will perform the data tasks to be done as part of their role and then hand the work to the...
The challenge of being an agile data leader
As a data leader who decides to empower a team by introducing an agile data way of working (WoW) , there is a massive set of challenges in that simple action. You are empowering a team to work in a very different way, and often in a way that is the polar opposite of...
Agile Ways of Working are hard, moonlighting teams members make it harder
One of the hardest things to do in agile is to deliver using part time team members where delivering as part of the team is not the team members only day job. Moonlighting Scrum Coach or Product Owner If you are using Scrum centric agile patterns, when your Scrum...
Adding members to the Agile Team makes you slower
Velocity When helping a data and analytics team adopt a new AgileData Way of Working, it takes a while to achieve what is referred to as consistent velocity. Velocity is a metric which is used to measure the amount of work done by a team. The use of the term...
The Agile Team member should know what they are working on and why
Feel the Buzz One of the things I love about working with a team who are delivering using an Agile Data way of working is the buzz that happens when they are doing it well. There is the buzz as you sit at a Prove It session and see the awesome things they have...
Frequently Asked Team Questions
Won’t team members over inflate their T-Skills? No. In our experience most people underplay their level of skills more often than they will over inflate them. The team dynamic has the positive effect of self regulation, it helps keep each team member honest about...