Part 1: The Big Picture

Chapter 4: Agile Requirements for the Program

Additional challenges faced that did not exist at the team level:

• Maintaining Vision and Roadmap – so that multiple agile teams can work to a common purpose
• Release Management
• Quality Management
• Deployment
• Resource Management – as team needs shift, so much their resources
• Eliminating Impediments

Component Teams vs Feature Teams

• Component teams are specialized in a very sp…

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