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The Agile team onion A model for agile teams in large organisations (or how many pizzas do you really need to feed your team?)
Emily Webber @ewebber emilywebber.co.uk / tacitlondon.com
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“as a team gets bigger, the number of links that need to be managed among members goes up at an accelerating, almost exponential rate. It’s managing the links between members that gets teams into trouble.”
- Robin Dunbar
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A multidisciplinary team has all the roles it needs to design, build and operate a service
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Security and risk
Business operations
Policy
Legal
Users
Public relations
Finance
Suppliers
Ops
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An iteration simulation
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What really happens
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Legal Marketing Security
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What’s been delivered?
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Agile team onion
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Core team Deliver the thing
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Collaborators specialist information, assurance as needed, reduce dependencies and blockers
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Supporters keep informed, feed into broader organisational priorities
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“Working directly with the legal team, with a greater understanding of each other’s challenges and constraints, led to some pretty important successes for online voter registration and the people using it.”
- Pete Herlihy product manager for online voter registration
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Making your own Agile Team Onion
• Get the right people in the room • Map out who is in each ring • Prioritise the collaborators • Agree on what questions you need to
answer • Agree who will talk to them • Talk to them
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Thanks.