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Organization of Production Support

Organization of Production Support

Learn approaches for organizing production support generally and specifically for Scrum teams.

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I can’t recall any company we’ve worked with that has been 100% satisfied with how it organizes production support. Companies try some or all of these patterns:

  • The people who built a system provide all production support.

  • A separate team provides all production support.

  • A separate team provides first- and second-level support; the engineering organization supports third-level issues.

The last approach is most common, and it is approached in multiple ways. One way is that third-level support is provided by a separate support team (which is more technical than the first- and second-level support team). That team’s primary ...