🔴 How to manage DEPENDENCIES in Scrum teams

👉 No Scrum team in a medium to big organization would be fully self-sufficient. How do we manage work in highly cross-dependent environments?

In this video, I talked about:
✅ How to run a Sprint Planning when there're dependencies
✅ Questions to ask your team to identify dependencies
✅ What's the role of a Scrum Master in managing dependencies
✅ How to remove internal dependencies between team members
and much more.

📌 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
02:25 - How to plan a Sprint with dependencies
04:08 - Questions to ask in Sprint Planning
04:33 - Role of the Scrum Master in resolving dependencies
05:36 - Navigating bottlenecks in testing
06:52 - Coaching on cross-functionality
12:10 - ScrumDay

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[ToriMarinucci]

This is always an interesting topic. I did want to talk about teams that have a lot of interdependencies/blockers between each other. IMO - it's useful for intertwined teams to build relationships and remove dependencies between each other directly. As a SM, I don't want to be the middle man for that & become a blocker myself.

I am scrum master for a few service teams (ops/big data, etc.). Big Data used to have many blockers w/ Operations - permissions for data, pii security, etc. Early on I'd handle coordinating with outside teams to remove dependencies, but over time I'd introduce BD to Operations and ask them to coordinate dependency removal.

Since they built a relationship, team members learned how to remove their own cross-team impediments while also learning how to best schedule work with the 'blocking team'. I was no longer needed (much) as the middle woman. :)

Also, we generally have a lot less blockers because BD members and this other team automated processes to make us less interdependent. Note: This is a 3 year old team so it took awhile to get here!