An Austrian ClimaTech startup with seed funding raised and enterprise customers. The team developed with individual responsibility, hierarchical leadership and too low a number of delivered features to keep up with the roadmap. Six months of intervention — training, hands-on support and cultural change — and the results kept improving even after the end of the programme.
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The situation
- Completion rate at 10% — 4 features every 2 weeks
- Time-to-market: 12 days per feature — 12 bugs every 2 weeks
- Hierarchical leadership, activities assigned from above, work in silos
- Mostly manual testing, individual responsibility for the code
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Training and microlearning
- Short sessions (~20 min) followed by practical workshops on backlog, user story mapping, a hybrid Scrum/Kanban approach
- TDD, ATDD and shared responsibility for the code — applied to real cases
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Technical and process support
- Mentoring on TDD, ATDD, BDD and architecture (DDD, microservices, DB optimisation)
- Support for the PO in writing and updating a backlog focused on user requirements
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Cultural change
- Shift from hierarchical leadership to shared leadership distributed across the team
- Definition of company values, career ladder and alignment of salaries based on contribution
The results
- 10% → 102%completion rate at the end of the intervention
- 4 → 28features developed every 2 weeks
- -83%bugs every 2 weeks