Stream Team

Stream teams are empowered autonomous teams who are responsible for building features from idea through to satisfied customer for their parts of a product, or value streams. To build features that will deliver the outcomes that a team is accountable for they need skills in uncovering customer challenges and pain points, prototyping and evaluating solutions as well as the skills to build the product. In addition, they need to have the necessary product and business context to effectively prioritize solution ideas and to understand the impact of the features they are building.

AI changes what a Stream Team can do, not what it is for. A team of three with AI tooling can research, prototype, build, and ship at a pace that used to need a department, which makes the boundary of the value stream and the absence of handovers matter more, not less. It also makes teaming the safeguard: a person working alone with an AI ships plausible output that fails later. The whole team on every activity is how the judgment stays in the room. The Designer and Developer pages cover what AI changes in each role.

The Team

Core team members

The core members of each Stream Team are:

Additional specialists

In addition to the core members, many other roles could be required depending on the needs of your stream. The size of the team should be kept to a minimum, so there needs to be a balance between the team having the skills they need to deliver without any handoffs and the team being too large. The following are some examples of additional specialists that could be required:

How Stream Teams work