Cross-Team Collaboration and Integration Patterns

Team collaboration and integration, the work they do and how they are organized are inextricably inter-connected.

 

Figure 1: The work teams do, how they are organized and the workflow in between them are intertwined

All three of these factors need to be considered when changing any one of them.

Each of these have several aspects to them as shown in figure 2:

 

There are several patterns available to handle reasonably common situations.