Becoming the Bottleneck

Discover strategies for overcoming bottlenecks in software development teams in this insightful conference talk. Explore the challenges of long-term tenure, including overloaded schedules and growing backlogs, and learn how to apply open source principles to improve organizational efficiency. Gain valuable insights into managing team dynamics, prioritizing projects, and implementing practices such as low barrier of entry, cross-team pull requests, and clear documentation. Examine real-world examples of Kanban across contexts and discuss the pros and cons of horizontal versus feature teams. Understand the importance of balancing responsibilities and learn techniques to reduce stress levels while improving inter-team relations in software development organizations.

Intro
How did it happen
A few years back
New projects
Accumulation of responsibility
Abandon ship?
Things to try?
Open source
Kanban across contexts 1
Tales from reality
Kanban across contexts 4
Piling up
Challenges
Don't adopt everything
Horisontal vs Feature teams
Components do not auto-follow
Guilds
Full agile
Conclusion