Defining Squad Start Dates

It’s important to create (and stick to) a schedule, especially if you have many squads, projects, and people. You get to choose whether to do this via a date-driven plan like a Gantt chart or a scope-based approach like a backlog of tasks. Don’t let anyone drift, because you’re likely to find some people will be frustrated waiting for their new squad to start and others will be gold-plating their existing project not knowing what comes next.

In our case we were dealing with a large organization with many ongoing projects, and we were growing rapidly. It took us almost two months to finish transitioning existing projects to the new squads. Among the contributing factors were unwieldy projects, Christmas holidays that ...

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