For most of the digital retail companies, classical requirements management is completely in the hands of the customer or the business analysts. Development teams mostly implement solutions based on predefined design, but they hardly contribute
to define what is the problem we are trying to solve. With the introduction of Agile methodologies, the development teams have become key players when it comes to gathering and evaluating customers’ demands. In this talk we will see how one of the successful German digital retailers, REWE Digital, is demystifying the old requirement management process and evolving towards an Agile approach.

When agile methods were introduced , we faced a new challenge: how to be cross functional? How to be a tester with developer background? Introducing Agile methodologies and setting up Scrum/Kanban teams in organizations brings a tremendous change in the way traditional software development was produced. This talk is about hands-on experience, how spreading skills among Scrum team members, supported by a T-Shape Community of Practice as company strategy, nurtured a learning culture within the Agile organization, broke the traditional silos of expertise, and increased the efficiency of the teams and the people who worked in them.