Boosting Team Productivity Across Functions and Roles
summary
A Japanese company, Timers, describes a cross-functional program to stop engineers juggling low-priority tasks when dependent work (server, front-end, etc.) blocks high-priority stories. They implemented hands-on measures—short internal bootcamps teaching Android, iOS, server, and front-end basics; pair programming during regular development; and a Slack channel for announcing and joining mob work—applied across engineers, designers, and PMs, and report on triggers, concrete examples, outcomes, and future plans.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:36Note: What is cross-functional/cross-role?
- 2:15How our App Team works
- 3:25Retrospective board at the time
- 4:06Reviewing the previous retrospective board
- 4:38Holding study sessions
- 6:15What we did on the day
- 7:18Implementation method
- 8:21In the case of Android
- 9:25Contents of the prepared documents
- 13:39Figma & Canva study sessions led to...
- 15:39Through working together...1
- 21:14Summary
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