CircleK eMobility Journey Towards Effective Cross-functional Value Streams (Eduardo da Silva, Guro Fladvad Størdal)

This episode was streamed live from Agile meets Architecture
conference.


In this episode, we discuss the multi-year journey of Circle K’s
eMobility organization as it scales to support growth from Norway
to European and global markets.


The eMobility organization began as a small team focused on
validating the electric vehicle (EV) charging business in Norway.
However, due to its success, it quickly had to shift from
“validating to scaling” and expand to various countries and
multiple products in an industry that is still in development.


Throughout the episode, Eduardo and Guro will share valuable
“mistakes”, lessons learned, experiments, methods, and practices
we have employed during this journey. We will particularly
emphasize the importance of breaking down functional silos within
the organization as a means to support sustainable scaling.
Initially, we focused on overcoming the Product and Technology
silos. Still, in time, we went further to develop truly
cross-functional value streams, also involving and continuously
engaging with marketing, sales, operations, and other
disciplines, with the goal of defining the best ways to support
the activities necessary for rapid and sustainable business
growth.


Eduardo and Guro have employed various ideas and techniques,
including Domain-driven Design, Team Topologies, Wardley Mapping,
and others. However, you will see that there are no silver
bullets. The secret is embracing this as a continuous improvement
process, involving people with knowledge and expertise,
maximizing learning, and empowering value streams and their teams
to drive the necessary design and decision-making with a clear
long-term vision.
Links



Architecture Modernization Enabling Team




Independent Service Heuristics (ISH)




https://github.com/TeamTopologies/Independent-Service-Heuristics




https://teamtopologies.com/news-blogs-newsletters/2024/8/7/newsletter-ish-enhancing-modularity-and-autonomy






Core Domain Charts




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