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Multidisciplinary team

As explained in Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure

A multidisciplinary team is a team whose members contribute different professional specialties to a shared product or service effort.

A multidisciplinary team combines different professional specialties around one product or service effort. It treats modernization as a socio-technical challenge: user experience, business rules, policy, organizational constraints, and technology must be reconsidered together. section 8.1

Use the team to connect discovery with delivery:

  • Include UX and other specialists alongside developers. section 8.1
  • Involve the whole team, especially developers, in discovery and user research. section 8.1
  • Reconsider established processes and policies instead of merely replacing their technology. section 8.1

Government property-tax modernization

A UK government tax-service modernization brought together discovery, UX, policy, business-process, and technical concerns while addressing legacy systems, excessive manual work, and organizational complexity. The wider modernization emphasized user-centric design, continuous delivery, and developing code in the open. section 8.1

How Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure covers it

How deep it goes
Explains team composition and discovery involvement through an industry example, but stops short of prescribing a formal team design.
Examples
Uses UK government property-tax modernization, legacy systems, policy change, user research, and excessive manual work.
What you can do after
Apply it via shared discovery and user research involving UX specialists, developers, and other relevant professionals.
How it connects
Ties multidisciplinary teams to product discovery, user research, user-centric design, continuous delivery, and modernization.
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