Have you ever started a cross-functional team? I’m sure you know that this comes with some challenges. That’s because we are all different and we all communicate in different styles and have different expectations based on our role, culture, and other criteria. Now imagine starting a cross-functional team coming from different parts of the world from different companies, roles, native language, and culture. Looks challenging right? On top of that, now think what impact COVID-19 could have had on this team when some team members had to move to their home country and thus transforming the team from being co-located to being distributed! That’s exactly what this session is about.

During this session, we’ll go through the journey of starting a cross-functional team adopting agile practices in a large traditional organization. Throughout the journey, we’ll look at the different challenges the team faced and the experiments we carried out to solve those issues.

We are going to go back to the basics. I will show you how simple experiments and improvement items can lead to high impact and help to build a high performing team throughout the months.