When scaling agile we struggle with questions like "do we scale collective ownership across teams or have cross-functional teams that are still specialized?", "do we aim for t-shaped teams or just t-shaped people?". Besides being hard, scaling collective ownership requires a different look at how to achieve Esprit de Corps that is an important motivational aspect.

1. When Scaling Agile…
Yuval
Yeret
AgileSparks
-­‐
Boston,
MA
@YuvalYeret

2. http://slideplayer.com/slide/3410/
Scaling - Collective Ownership across
teams or Specialized Teams?

3. T-Shaped People->
T-Shaped Teams

4. Esprit de Corps – Team Pride

5. Esprit de Corps?

6. Where would you have more team/
squad-level pride? (Esprit-de-
Corps)
A
B

7. How about liquidity/flexibility?
A
B

8. Can we find a way to avoid the
conflict?
Flexibility
Esprit de corps / Team Pride
Whatever
you
throw
at
us
we’ll
handle
it
and
probably
be
the
best
at
it
Are
you
sure
you
really
want
US
to
do
it?
We
are
amazing
doing
X
We
can
do
it,
but
so
can
the
other
teams.

9. Corps > Team
es·prit de corps
eˌsprē dəә ˈkôr/
noun
a feeling of pride, fellowship, and common
loyalty shared by the members of a
particular group.

10. Pride through performance
rather than specialization
Allow/Encourage Internal
Competition?

11. This is TIP
(Thinking in Progress)
BTW It started here -
http://yuvalyeret.com/safe-agile-release-train-flexible-enough/
Yuval
Yeret
AgileSparks
-­‐
Boston,
MA
@YuvalYeret