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Saying No to the CEO: A Deep Look at Independent Teams - Adam Telfer
The document discusses empowering product teams with full autonomy over their work. It outlines challenges such as teams getting stuck repeating ideas, difficulties with hiring across many small teams, and the challenges of objectively killing underperforming projects. Benefits include teams being able to adapt quickly to changes in technology or genres, less political infighting, and teams having a strong sense of creative control and commitment to their work. The document advocates that management should not be able to stop teams from working on whatever products or technologies they choose.
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- 1. Saying No tothe CEO Adam Telfer @adamwtelfer Product Lead, Wooga GmbH
- 2. all@yourcompany.com Dear Everyone, Effective Immediately: Nomatter what, Teams can work on whatever they want. Any Product they want. Using any technology they want. Management cannot stop you.
- 5. Independent Teams build betterPeople build better Products build better Businesses
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- 21. Teams make theirown decisions. On what to start On how to execute it On if/when to stop it Teams have full autonomy
- 22. Enter me, 2012 Ican do whatever I want?
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- 26. 2nd Review Not good enough... YOUCAN’T STOP ME!!!
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- 28. I made thecall to stop.
- 29. I asked: “Why didn’tyou tell me to stop it in the beginning? We could have saved 3 months of effort!”
- 30. Autonomy Culture > Cost of3 Months
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- 33. How are MobileHits Made?
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- 37. Great Games arebuilt around Small, Creative, Autonomous teams Our process was built with this in mind.
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- 47. 20 Game Teams 300People 200 Art, Dev, Design
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- 90. all@yourcompany.com Dear Everyone, Effective Immediately: Nomatter what, Teams can work on whatever they want. Any Product they want. Using any technology they want. Management cannot stop you.
- 91. It’s time tohit send.
- 92. Thank You! Adam Telfer WoogaGmbH @adamwtelfer mobilefreetoplay.com