Case 07 · Distributed delivery · by Salah Eldesoky
Improve an existing offshore engineering centre
Sixty people, stable headcount, slow delivery. Find where work really waits, fix decision rights across headquarters and regions, and integrate remote teams as owners with fair hours.
Fictional scenario. Organisations, figures and outcomes are illustrative. This demonstrates decision-making, not a claim about a delivered project or an employer's position. Views are personal.
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Debrief
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Operating model and decision rights
Headquarters
- Strategy and portfolio priorities
- Risk appetite and assurance
Domain product owner
- One accountable owner per domain
- Backlog order and decision SLAs
Regions
- Market needs into one demand view
- Local acceptance of changes
Global squads across locations
Own build and run of a domain end to end, share planned overlap hours fairly and record decisions asynchronously.