Team Dependencies Kill Performance

Dependencies remove autonomy, which kills accountability. Once you have handoffs, you allow people the wiggle room to throw up their hands and say, "I did my job".

Four types of dependencies silently undermine team performance:

• Structural dependencies - teams rely on other teams

• Governance dependencies - teams rely on sign-offs

• Technical dependencies - teams share code, environments, and tools

• Knowledge dependencies - centralised subject matter experts.

The usual response is to hire more managers to "manage" the dependencies, but this creates slower, more expensive delivery through an ever-growing management structure.

Instead, we need to identify and remove dependencies altogether. Check out the article below for more details on the types of dependency and how to remove them.

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