19
Approaches for Scaling Successful Products and Teams
Scaling Approaches for People and Teams
A pattern we’ve seen in practice in various organizations is a senior leader saying something along the lines of “So, we have seventy people working on the product. Since we decided to adopt Scrum, we need you to organize them into separate teams,” the CEO explained. So many things were interesting about that phrase, but we decided to take a holistic product perspective on this comment from the CEO. “Do you need all seventy people to build that product?” we asked. “Well, I don’t know,” the CEO responded, “but that’s how many people were working on it, and I don’t think it will go any faster with fewer people.”
In many organizations, scaling is not ...
Get Practical Product Management for Product Owners: Creating Winning Products with the Professional Product Owner Stances now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
