On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Diederik van Liere > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> A practice group is a cross-team collection of individuals who are > >> specialized or inclined to a particular role within each scrum team. > >> QA, UI/UX and Operations are common practice groups in larger > >> scrum shops {{Citation needed}}. Members of a practice group > >> communicate issues and learnings across teams to lift the standard > >> for their speciality across the organization. > > > > I believe that Steven's recent posts about Spotify and Yammer > > illustrate such practice groups. See for example Scaling Agile at > > Spotify @ > > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1018963/Articles/SpotifyScaling.pdf > > Thanks for reminding me of this article. I spent some time at > $DAYJOB-1 championing a matrix based organizational shift inspired > by this exact article and some additional readings I had done. Bryan, do you by chance recall some of the other readings on the subject? Last night, I had a really interesting conversation with Henrik Kniberg - one of the authors of the Spotify paper. It was super inspiring and gave me a lot more food for thought. After ruminating on it some more, I plan to share some notes from the conversation as well as some thoughts on this list. Anyway, I'd love to read more on the subjects. -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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