When the business wants to speed up because there is a lot of work and/or (legal) deadlines coming up, a natural response is to expand the workforce. While it's understood that a Scrum team has an optimal size, the alternative of adding more teams brings its own challenges.
This talk will discuss the lessons learned with 3 teams on a single complex project. It will also explain the analogy that you can't make a baby in 1 month with 9 women, highlighting the limitations of adding more teams. It will also explore the benefits you can expect and what it takes to make it work.
This talk will go into the social aspect and technical aids that can help, at the end, you should have a good idea of the benefits and the hidden costs of having multiple teams work on the same project. Even if you are not working with multiple teams then this talk can still improve the collaboration in your team.
This talk will discuss the lessons learned with 3 teams on a single complex project. It will also explain the analogy that you can't make a baby in 1 month with 9 women, highlighting the limitations of adding more teams. It will also explore the benefits you can expect and what it takes to make it work.
This talk will go into the social aspect and technical aids that can help, at the end, you should have a good idea of the benefits and the hidden costs of having multiple teams work on the same project. Even if you are not working with multiple teams then this talk can still improve the collaboration in your team.
Abdel Sghiouar
Google Cloud
Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate at @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Serverless. Abdel started his career in data centers and infrastructure in Morocco, where he is originally from, before moving to Google's largest EU data center in Belgium. Then, in Sweden, he joined Google Cloud Professional Services. He spent five years working with Google Cloud customers on architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems before turning to advocacy and community work.