Coordinating Global Agile Teams Around One MVP | Deborah Colombari

Deborah Colombari: Coordinating Global Agile Teams Around One MVP

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"The scope is clear. How we are going to deliver it is not clear." - Deborah Colombari

 

Deborah brings a live challenge from a new global project. Her team carries the deadline, but three other teams must contribute, and those teams do not share the same priority or urgency. The question becomes: how do you align teams when only one of them feels the pressure? Deborah has already tried management alignment meetings, but they have not worked as well as needed. Her next experiment is a one-week workshop inspired by Lean Inception, where managers and teams can write down what is needed, when it is needed, and what each team can realistically contribute. Vasco and Deborah explore three practical moves: define the MVP as a real vertical slice, ask whether a person from each dependent team can join for a Sprint or a few days per week, and reduce dependencies by moving ownership closer to the team that holds the deadline. The coaching conversation ends with a useful image: even vertical slices contain thinner vertical slices. When the deadline is fixed, scope must become flexible.

 

In this episode, we refer to Lean Inception and Minimum Viable Product .

 

Self-reflection Question: When your team depends on others, are you managing the dependency or trying to reduce it?

 

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