This document discusses feature team construction and components. It defines a component team as focusing on creating reusable components like system layers, modules, or packages. A feature team is cross-functional and can pull features from the backlog to complete. Challenges include organizational silos and technical reusability. Some patterns to address these are understanding the full value stream, improving infrastructure for quicker feedback, using communities of practice to share knowledge, and developing T-shaped skills with depth and breadth.

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Feature Team Construction :
A Workshop

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About Me
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ASHWINEE KALKURA
Lean/Agile Coach & Continuous Learner
ashwinee.kalkura@gmail.com +91-9448060514
“The Team knows it Better”
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The System that people work in and the interaction with
people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance
W. Edwards Deming
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Components are distinguishable system parts that provide and
encapsulate common functions needed to implement features
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What is a Component

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Component Team
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A team that focuses on the creation of one or more components of a
larger product that a customer would purchase.
Component teams create assets or components that are then reused
by other teams to assemble customer-valuable solutions.
A System Layer (UI, Application, Data etc)
Module or a package
Application Library
Subsystem

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Why Component Team
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Re-use in different Business, Codebases
Unique Responsibilities like Security, Compliance
Provides Logic and Algorithms with deep technical expertise
Large Data sets, Intensive computation, Critical Non
Functional Requirements

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What is a Feature
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Features are those behaviours of the system that
directly fulfil some user need

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Feature Team
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A cross-functional and cross-component team
that can pull end-customer features from the
product backlog and complete them

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Why Feature Team?
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Most User Stories require unique changes to specific
parts of code
Common code base
User Centric Approach

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Challenges
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Conway’s Law
Availability of Skill set
Organization Silo’s
Technical Re-usability

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How do we solve
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Lets solve a problem together

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Some Patterns to Use
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Conway’s Law
“Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs
which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations”
Melvin Conway, 1967
Understand the complete Value Stream
“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer
gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are
reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”
Taiichi Ohno

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Some Patterns to Use
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Improved Infrastructure
Small batch sizes, Quicker feedback and lot of scope for experimentation. Fail Fast, Fail
Safe
Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are organized groups of people who have a common
interest in a specific technical or business domain. They collaborate regularly to share
information, improve their skills, and actively work on advancing the general knowledge
of the domain.
T-Shaped Skills
Deep Expertise in one area and breadth of knowledge

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