Derk-Jan de Grood is an Agile coach at Squerist. He accompanies organizations on their Agile journey.

Opinion

Dealing with dependencies

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In his book, “The waves of Agile,” Derk-Jan de Grood gives practical tips to create a learning organization that delivers quality solutions with business value. In a series of blogs, he shares some of his practical experiences.

There’s a lot of talk on dependencies. When developing solutions, whether they’re software, hardware or organizational, it’s the dependencies that make things complicated and slow down the delivery. They can result in delays, more expensive solutions or sometimes cause the product not to see operational daylight at all.

Ideally, we have teams that can get end-to-end solutions to the user relatively autonomously. This enables them to deliver fast and since they work in parallel with the other teams, the organization can easily scale up if it wants to increase the output.

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