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Building an Empowered Team

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“I have a feature request” “We need this built asap”

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2 reasons why this happens:

- Team composition- Team don’t know or understand the business

priorities

Solution

Problem Domain

Technical Implementation

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CR on checkout in PL is low

Implement a exit intent solution

offer dotpay as a payment provider rework the

checkout form

Solution

Stakeholder

Problem Domain

Technical Implementation

Project Manager

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Team

Solution

Problem Domain

Technical Implementation

Product Owner

Stakeholders

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Team

Solution

Problem Domain

Technical Implementation

Business Owner

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Team

And now everybody is a stakeholder.

Other Stakeholders

Place your team into the solution domain.

Give them everything they need to get there

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Team(Every Role is Optional)

- Design- Business

Intelligence- Development- Devops- and anything

else they need

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Engineering Managers

Business Owners

Human Resources

Subject Matter

Experts

Agile Coach

Product Roadmap

There is no product roadmap. Instead:

Company Mission|

Product Vision|

SMART Objectives (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time Bound)

Product Roadmap becomes - Prioritised list of problems - prioritised on business value- clear hypothesis and measurable opportunities

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How can we calculate BV?

- Business value in a marketplace may consist of:- seller experience (acquisition, quality, NPS)- buyer experience (CR, CLV, NPS)- Legal & regulatory issues- strategic decisions - supporting functions (employer branding etc / HR)

Each of these need to be weighted in order to determine business value.

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Requirements for a great team that sits in the solution domain

1. Excellencea. T - shaped peopleb. Complementary individualsc. Knowledge sharingd. Varied experience

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Concierge Roles:

Role of the Engineering Manager

a. Hiring (and firing)b. moving people around & shaking things upc. unblocking the teamd. listening to the teame. ensuring the team have everything they need

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Concierge Roles:

Role of the Business Owner

1. Sit in the Problem Domaina. Find out what the root cause of the problem is

(talk to stakeholders, gather data)b. prioritise the problems on business value /

opportunity with the other BOsc. Bring the problems to the team

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Other Concierge Roles:

- Human Resources- Agile Coach- Subject Matter Experts

Fulfil traditional business rolesAvailable to the team whenever the team requires

them

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Role of the Team

1. Sit in the solution domaina. come up with solutions for the problemb. work out the best one to implement based on

simple analysisc. implement solution in lean way with clear

hypothesisd. Validate hypothesise. Iterate or move on

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Lean- fast feedback loop- MVP approach- Know when to move on

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