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Title: Growing cross-functional Teams in the Public Sector
Proposer: 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.

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.

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.

Asti - I'd be interested in this
Roger: this sounds one of the better Agile proposals.