Santoshanand Adkar
With more and more teams working towards a common goal and common product, it becomes imperative that the dependencies within these teams are managed well and in advance making sure that the dependencies are addressed in timely manner thus avoiding the inevitable delays in delivering the project. Dependencies which can be seen early in the life cycle can be taken care of, however the dependencies that come on the fly or during the execution, becomes challenge. Is there any way we can manage these dependencies in a structured manner? Can all the dependencies be taken care of? How to resolve the conflicts that arise because of these dependencies? Here is a paper which talks about dealing and managing with Dependencies within the teams and across the teams who are working on a common product and who are getting benefited by that product. The reason to mention regarding the beneficiaries is that they too have dependencies on the product in direct or indirect way. Example can be of futuristic dependencies which can get addressed in timely manner so that once the feature is launched, the teams can get benefit from it.
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