Managing work — Part II — Benefits of a flex team

At its roots, flex teams are groups of people with different expertise and from different teams working together to achieve a common goal.

Example

Handoffs vs. flex team.

Hypothesis

If we get the right representation from each team together for [amount of time], we will reduce cycle time, drive out unknowns, and make decisions faster. We will get to production faster. This team will have all the necessary skills to turn an idea into a working product.

Other benefits

• Alignment
• Focus
• Efficiency
• Sharing
• Learning
• Engagement
• Owning the problem space better
• Collaboration
• Autonomy
• Accountability
• …

Takeaways

• The flex team knows it better
• No more information loss in the communication chain thanks to peer to peer communication
• Fix the problems just in time
• Win as one
• The flex team is the owner of the process
• Remove overhead
• Working with people you wouldn’t normally work with
• Flex team mentality
• …