Handling Cross-Team Dependencies Without Resorting to Violence

Building software requires a lot of bringing lots of different pieces together. But when some of those pieces depend on others outside your team, there's more opportunity for bottlenecks and inefficiencies. But while dependencies are unavoidable, there are ways to avoid it becoming a bigger problem. In this episode, we're going over two ways to handle cross-team efficiencies—even when the dependency isn't significant enough to justify adding a new person to the team.

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There is a lot of material on how a team should operate in an agile manner. There is also a lot of material for leadership as to the benefits of agility, the mindset, etc. But there is not a lot of material directed towards those folks who sit in between. Agile Bites breaks down key Lean and Agile concepts and practices for the people who are often tasked with supporting these things. People who may have to be redefining their roles in a world of incremental delivery. Or maybe they’ve been put in the middle of an “agile transformation” and things are not going as well as promised.