When organizations scale product development across multiple teams, introducing Scrum or Kanban at the team level often creates the illusion of agility—agile teams, but not an agile organization. This simulation highlights the hidden trap: optimizing individual team performance without addressing inter-team dependencies typically leads to longer delivery times and reduced adaptability. Business agility suffers as asynchronous dependencies, handovers, and coordination overhead become the norm rather than the exception.

 

In this hands-on simulation, participants explore various approaches to multi-team product development—from focusing solely on local improvements to creating a flight-level view of the product and program, and ultimately to shifting the team topology itself. You’ll experience how changes in team structure directly affect the way work flows through the system and how synchronous collaboration can dramatically improve delivery speed and responsiveness. This session offers practical insights into designing for agility at scale by shifting the focus from isolated teams to the product as a whole.