Chapter 8Managing Distributed Design Efforts in Agile

DOI: 10.4324/9781003188520-12

As teams and programs grow into multiple teams and then into scaled operations, new needs and complexities enter the picture. The first natural phase of growth within a program is to go from a single team to a few small teams that work together. If the work is broken up so these teams are truly independent, scaling HCD looks like planning and incorporating HCD activities using a Research Roadmap, with a review of HCD work to evaluate stakes. That is to say, when teams are working on products that aren’t dependent on one another or the dependencies are limited enough to handle informally, they can continue working independently; they will each own a product ...

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