{"id":948,"date":"2020-08-26T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agilerasmus.com\/wordpress\/?p=948"},"modified":"2020-08-28T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:16:16","slug":"design-for-stable-teams-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilerasmus.com\/wordpress\/design-for-stable-teams-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Design for stable teams, ok?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Introducing the concept of stable delivery teams in an organisation can be hard. Especially if the concept is new to both employees and management. Creating the team structure and getting buyin for the change might be challenging. However, if there is something that the past 20+ years has proven, then it&#8217;s that modern leadership focuses on empowering stable teams over maximizing the utilization of individual employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens when you do not have stable teams &#8211; and employees are allocated to several projects and other day-to-day work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Employees have to work on several high priority projects and can only give each project few hours per week<\/li><li>Employees end up having to prioritise each individual project against each other on a day-to-day basis<\/li><li>Employees may face conflicts in project priorities, e.g. all project are important<\/li><li>Employees may find themselves in a situation where they have promised something to a given project and local management may have prioritised different work<\/li><li>Employees work with several context switches per day due to different objectives for different projects<\/li><li>Employees find themselves participating in many status meetings, e.g. one for each project, leaving few hours available for flow work<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>From a project perspective, the issue of employees having low focus on each project will result in a low completion rate of work to be done. 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