Be Water My Friend

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SmartRecruiters cancels its roadmap and pauses new development for a quarter to reorient around AI, then builds Winston and restructures R&D (~200 people) into goal‑centric groups of 15–25 people that live 6–9 months and split into delivery, discovery and acceleration squads; delivery squads enforce WIP=1 per epic and acceleration squads absorb KTLO with rotation every 6–7 weeks. The company bootstraps and dissolves 97 teams in a year, sees attrition down 50%, KTLO −12%, throughput +9% and much shorter cycle and lead times.

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1. 0:00Dynamic re-teaming intro
2. 1:54Product team foundations
3. 5:05Need for team fluidity
4. 10:05Group concept
5. 11:33Squad types lifecycle
6. 14:18Static to dynamic teams
7. 16:46Results after 9 months
8. 21:20Caveats and social challenges
9. 23:05Key takeaways
10. 24:26Q&A