Specialisation to Task/role/technology - will inevitably create Waterfall

Ari Tikka, Ran Nyman Nov 2016

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

Dividing work to teams or individualsspecialized to technology, task or role leads to:

pre-planning teams integration teams resource bottlenecks queues because of asynchronous dependencies which demands long planning horizon ever growing organisation and middle management Coordination Chaos

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Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

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Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

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ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

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Modul 3

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AndroidReal Product

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Customer

Problem

System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

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Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

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ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

Management

Customer

Problem

System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

Line mnagerSystem Team

Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

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ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

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Customer

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System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

Line mnagerSystem Team

Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

Gosei Oy - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) 3

ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

Management

Customer

Problem

BloatedProductBacklog

System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

Line mnagerSystem Team

Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

Gosei Oy - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) 3

ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

Management

Customer

Problem

BloatedProductBacklog

System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

Line mnagerSystem Team

Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

Gosei Oy - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) 3

ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

Management

Customer

Problem

BloatedProductBacklog

System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

Line mnagerSystem Team

Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

Gosei Oy - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) 3

ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

Management

Customer

Problem

BloatedProductBacklog

System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

Line mnagerSystem Team

Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

Gosei Oy - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) 3

ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

Management

Customer

Problem

BloatedProductBacklog

System Design

Resource ManagerSpecifiersArchitectsUI design

QualityFault mgr

Feature ownerRelease Manager

Line mnagerSystem Team

Portfolio managementCustomer Experience Manager

Release train engineer

Slow poison of technology/role-specialization

Gosei Oy - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) 3

ComponentTeams

System integrationTestingDeployment

Coordination

Feature

Project Managers

Release

Modul 3

DB

AndroidReal Product

Management

Customer

Problem

BloatedProductBacklog

Motivation?