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Architecture & High Performing Teams

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Companies have a never ending quest to continuously adopt new tools, processes and new architectures with the goal of enabling teams to move fast and build high performing teams. What is a high performing team? If you ask a product manager, they will say "It’s a team that can deliver new value faster". If you ask a Team lead they will say along the lines of "A high performing team can pay down its tech debt faster, spends majority of the time building new value to the product and optimizes their work for improved quality and faster delivery." "so what makes these teams move fast?" Now this is a great question! I have been fortunate to work with some of these high performing teams.  Juggling down the memory lane, I was trying to find the answer to this question in a way that discounts the personal traits of any individual in the team. I stumbled upon three unique qualities that distinguished a high performing team from others: Ability to make sweeping chang