Agile Software Engineering

Managing Dependencies in Agile Teams — Why Discipline Is the Real Enabler of Agility

Alessandro Season 1 Episode 4

Most Agile models assume teams can work fully independently.
But in real R&D organisations — especially those with shared platforms, legacy systems, or compliance constraints — inter-team dependencies are everywhere.

Ignoring them doesn’t make you more “agile.”
It just makes the blockers invisible.

In this podcast, I explain how light-weight discipline (not heavy frameworks) can dramatically improve flow, quality, and predictability — even without going full SAFe.

You’ll find:

  • The real challenges hidden inside dependencies
  • Practical, discipline-based techniques that work in any organisation
  • Common pitfalls most teams fall into
  • A more pragmatic, engineering-driven view of agility

If you want to read the full article it is here.