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Cross-discipline teams, Agile values and design workshops
How to build and support a cross-discipline strategy design team: the team-building questions, a small core team plus scoped expertise, diversity and belonging, the four moments teams need support, Agile values versus frameworks, and design studio and rapid sketching workshops.
Given a scenario, utilize the tools for productive cross-discipline collaboration.
~7 min read · 19 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Use the team-building questions to assemble a cross-disciplinary team, and structure it as a small core team with expertise scoped to key moments or added for a phase.
- Expand team criteria to represent the customers you want to reach, and cultivate a fair, welcoming culture of belonging.
- Support the team at kickoff, research, synthesis and review moments, and set the expectation for ambiguity.
- Strengthen team dynamics with safety, constructive conflict and asking for help.
- Distinguish Agile values and principles from frameworks and practices, apply the four Agile Manifesto values, and tell doing agile from being agile.
- Run a design studio workshop and rapid sketching.
- Key terms: core team (the small group dedicated to the challenge); extended team (perspectives that contribute without being on the core team); knowledge infusion (expertise added at key points without joining the team); constructive conflict (disagreement that surfaces obstacles before market); Agile Manifesto (four values from 2001); design studio (a 60-90 minute collaborative sketching workshop).
Key facts
Example core-team commitment
- Detail
- At least eight weeks, full-time
Team mix to check
- Detail
- Thinkers, doers, dreamers and tactical folks
Four support moments
- Detail
- Kickoff, research, synthesis, review
Synthesis anchor
- Detail
- The original challenge framing and what users said
Agile Manifesto
- Detail
- 2001, 17 software engineers, four values
Agile principles
- Detail
- 12
Scrumban
- Detail
- A mixture of Scrum and Kanban
Design studio length
- Detail
- 60 to 90 minutes
Design studio presentation
- Detail
- 3 minutes per sketch
Rapid sketching
- Detail
- Fold three times; eight ideas
- Why did the Agile Manifesto's authors look for an alternative way of working?
- Which agile layer covers planning cadence, inspect-and-adapt and roles?
- When can rapid sketching be used?
- Why does the strategy design journey need a cross-disciplinary team?
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