Team of Teams
Turf Type
A Team of Teams is a large team that uses reteaming to continuously reorganize itself into smaller Crews.
Turf Types: Team of Teams • House • Product Area • Business Unit
Purpose
A Team of Teams is a large team (often between ten to fifty people) that uses reteaming to continuously reorganize itself into smaller Crews. Within this Turf, the Teaming Options patterns (Dynamic Team, Mission Team, and Liquid Team) can be used in various combinations to get the benefits of small and flexible teams while at the same time retaining the benefits of a large, stable Team of Teams. (Fluid Scrum Teams is an example of this approach.)
Notes
It is possible for a Base to have Turfs of different types, and they may also overlap or contain each other in various creative ways. In each of these types, Crews are usually contained within one Turf, although it is easy to imagine examples where Crews might be shared across several Turfs.
We prefer to keep traditional management in the Governance Crew and outside of Turfs. When a Base grows so large that the number of people in it cannot be managed anymore by one Governance Crew, the best step is to split the Base (horizontally). We do not add a management layer inside the Base (vertically).
Rules / Constraints
We have not yet defined any rules or constraints.
“Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.”
(Source: Bo Burnham)