Feature vs. Component Teams: Another Perspective

Hiren Doshi is doing a good job of describing various considerations around the feature vs. component teams discussion and on the practical  application of the three tier Big Picture model for larger and distributed enterprises, at his blog at www.practiceagile.com. His ongoing, experience-based perspective is lucid and practical so I’ve added his blog to the blogroll. [...]

Organizing at Scale: Implementing Spanning Features

Prompted by the discussion of feature and component teams, a reader recently sent in the following question:
“I have a user story, that on its face, appears to have been structured in such a way that it simply cannot be independent.  That is, the story itself cuts across teams, and even across product lines.  If the [...]

Organizing at Scale: A Basic Scrum Framework for Enterprise Teams

Recently, I was working with a smaller, but distributed, team that was trying to establish a basic framework for working together in a lightweight, Big Picture, enterprise pattern. We were rolling out a basic scrum practice for the individual teams, but one that lends itself to scaling well into enterprise release planning, and is also [...]

Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 3

As the title indicates, in the last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2 – and also be sure and check the comments from others) I’ve described the conundrum of organizing agile teams at scale, and said I’d provide some additional input from others along with some recommendations.
Should the Agile Enterprise Lean to the Feature [...]

Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 2

In my last post, I reintroduced this topic, describing the conundrum of organizing large number of agile teams to better address value delivery for new end user features and services. I described two basic approaches, feature teams and component teams, and some arguments for each.
I’m still waiting for some feedback from a couple of others [...]

Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 1

While continuing my work with a number of larger enterprises facing the cultural change, new practice adoption and organizational challenges of a large scale agile transformation, the topic has again come up as to how to organize large numbers of agile teams to effectively implement agile and optimize value stream delivery.
For the smaller software enterprise, [...]