Use an Integration Team
Although sharing a part-time team member is sometimes a step in the right direction, it may not be a step far enough. Sometimes it is necessary to create an integration team. This is most common on projects with ten or more teams. An integration team works in the gaps that may exist between the development teams. Most of these gaps occur in the interfaces between teams (Sosa, Eppinger, and Rowles 2007). Interface problems can be broadly split into these two categories:
• Unidentified interfaces. An unidentified interface is one that exists but that no one has discovered yet.
• Unattended interfaces. An unattended interface is one that exists and that at least one team is aware of but which no one is doing anything about. ...
Get Succeeding with Agile 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.
