What happens when you change teams every two days?

What happens when stable, domain-focused teams become a constraint rather than an enabler?

In May 2025, we experimented with a radical change to our team structures: merging three established teams into one larger group, then forming small, fluid teams around specific features and problems. Inspired by FaST, these teams could reform every two days, bringing together people with the skills and motivation needed for the work at hand.

This session explores what happened next: how we adapted our ways of working, the impact on delivery metrics and team experience, the resistance and uncertainty we encountered, and why we ultimately moved away from the approach. Along the way, we'll examine what surprised us, what we'd do differently, and where rapidly forming teams might still have a place in our organisational toolkit.

Participant Takeaways

• Practical steps for moving from domain-focused teams to effectively forming fluid, problem-focused teams
• Techniques for encouraging senior leaders to try fluid, problem-focused teams
• Reflections on the impacts seen in both delivery metrics and team happiness ratings from trying rapidly changing teams
• How to anticipate and mitigate challenges in implementing and embedding rapidly reforming teams