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Journey

“How can we be more like you?”

• 6 Globally Distributed Teams
• Some Poorly Performing
• Goal to Improve Delivery Velocity

Discovery of Root Causes

Inefficient Processes and Bottlenecks?

Technical Debt and Complex Codebases?

Team Skill Gaps and Collaboration Issues?

• Interviewed 6 Teams
• Used a sampling of people
• About 6 hours per team in just interviews
• Uncovered many more issues

One Team, Many Issues

Prioritizing Investments

• 4 Stages, 19 Units, 90 Datapoints

Tale of Two Teams

• Leverage Cross-Team Pollination

Where to start?

• Rely on surveys, not interviews
• Aggregate results at the team level
• Identify areas of synergy

DIY Assessments

• Identify your best SDLC practices
• Order them according to priority
• Develop questions with only 3 options (for ease of scoring)
• Have everyone take the survey
• Identify your internal domains of expertise and leverage them
• Repeat every 6 months and monitor progress

Download our 19 BEST™ Practice Areas

Data-Driven Insights

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