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**Title**: Growing	cross-functional	Teams	in	the	Public	Sector\\
**Proposer**: [[2013:michael_leber]]\\
**Type**: Cast Study\\
**Duration**: 90 minutes\\
**Description**: 
Looking	at	collaboration	in	IT	teams	of public	organizations	we	typically	face	two	
major	obstacles:	traditional	concepts	of	departments,	teams and	individual	
responsibilities	as	well	as	a	rather	bureaucratic	culture. In	addition	the	fixed	
budget	approach	even	stimulates	the	idea of	following	plans	over	responding	to	
change	in	separated	functional	silos.\\
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This	session	presents	the	challenges,	pitfalls	and	learnings	out	of	two	case	
studies,	where	the	introduction	of	Agile	helped	growing	true	cross-functional	
teams.	Specifically	it	demonstrates	how	an	agile Kanban	approach	triggered	the	
collaboration	in-between	different	teams	and	in-between	specialists	of	different	
disciplines. It	outlines,	how	planning	and	product	design,	development	and	
testing	turned	into	co-creative	efforts.	And	it	shows,	that	not	only	the	teamwork	
grew	in	terms	of	maturity,	but	also	the	initial	premise	on	better	customer	service	
turned	into	reality.\\
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Attendees	get	an	insight	into	the	successful	application	of	Agile	in	traditional	
waterfall	and	command	&	control	cultures.	They	take	home	a	stepwise	approach	
for	applying	Kanban	in	continuous	improvement	of	teamwork	and	team	results.\\
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\\ Asti - I'd be interested in this \\
Roger: this sounds one of the better Agile proposals.\\