Stream Team

Stream teams are empowered autonomous teams who are responsible for building features from idea through to satisfied customers 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 prioritise solution ideas and to understand the impact of the features they are building.

The Team

Core team members

The core members of each Stream Team are:

RoleSkillsResponsibilities
ResearcherCustomer interviews, surveys, data analysisUncover customer challenges and pain points
DesignerSketching, wireframing, prototypingEvaluate solutions
DeveloperCoding, testing, deploymentBuild the product

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:

Business SpecialistsTechnical Specialists
  • Marketing
  • Operations
  • Customer Service
  • Sales
  • Legal
  • Finance
  • Front-end
  • Back-end
  • Infrastructure
  • Data
  • AI
  • Bespoke systems

How Stream Teams work

Aligning

Defining the core objectives of the Stream Team based on the product context.

Continuous Discovery

Uncovering customer challenges and pain points and distilling the insights into opportunities.

Continuous Design

Ideating on solutions, defining experiments, designing prototypes and evaluating solutions.

Continuous Delivery

Practices and techniques to get high quality code to customers as safely and quickly as possible.

Continuous Improvement

The ways of analysing processes and the steps that can be taken to improve them.

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