Introduction
Last blog I wrote about how we coached and supported the management group to identify next steps in their agile transformation. One of the actions was to change the teams to become Feature teams. Teams who have all needed competences to deliver end customer value. This blog I will describe how I facilitated the Feature team self selection workshop.
Overall agenda for the workshop
Each step of the workshop is described in a few more words under each heading in the blogpost. I described the overall workshop process with a flip chart that you can see below to make the workshop process easy to understand for all participants.
- Presentation of Self selection boundaries
- Product Owner present example deliveries from the backlog
- All prepare their own “avatar” with skills
- Collaboration and self selection
- Each new team validate towards boundaries
- Each team identify concerns with their team setup
- Repeat 4-7 until we reach our goal “Good enough for now, Safe enough to try”
- Short retrospective
Presentation of Self Selection boundaries
We had a few rules to guide them in their self selection and collaboration efforts to identify Feature teams.;
- Do what is best for the company
- Go for teams that is close to equal in size, experience and competence
- We want self managing teams able to deliver on the example backlog items
- We want teams who learn how to collaborate and share knowledge to develop as a team over time
