Talent: Smaller but higher number of teams enabling higher capacity and higher feature throughput in large international airline

From

To

Pod # 1
PM
Tech Lead
Devs
QA

Pod # 2
PM
Tech lead
Devs
QA

Pod # 1
Product definer
Lead builder
Product builders

Pod # 2
Product definer
Lead builder
Product builders

Pod # 3
Product definer
Lead builder
Product builders

Pod # 4
Product definer
Lead builder
Product builders

Two pizza team of 8-10 people

One pizza team of 3-5 people

x2 number of pods for more features

Example shared functional roles

SRE/Devops TPM Business analyst Data analysts/engineers

ML / dev ops Security Engineer Enterprise Architects QA engineer