About the company
Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company based in Oakland, USA
- Product – 3D printed houses (including 3D printing technology, advanced materials, and robotic automation)
- 10 teams working in an R&D office, developing the entire product
Initial state
We observed:
- 10 Product Owners and 10 Product Backlogs
- multiple dependencies between teams
- high utilization levels in Sprint and an inability for teams to react to requests from other teams and/or emergent work
- low adaptiveness
- local team identity (“this is our part/work/backlog/OKR”)
- local OKRs(s) that amplify focus on the parts, local backlogs, and local team identities
- long lead times (T2M)
Expected Outcomes by the Customer
- Reduced development Cycle Times
- Increased adaptiveness and ability to innovate
- Increased understanding of the progress towards the goals (OKR, Product Goal) from the product perspective
- More energized and motivated employees
- Internal Scrum Masters that are capable of supporting a large-scale development independently
Course of Action
- Management alignment workshop to define the desired outcomes
- Optimization Goals workshop to define the organizational capabilities required to support the outcome
- Town hall to communicate the change and start collecting feedback
- Transformation Team lift-off + Transformation Backlog to provide transparency
- Change vision workshop
- Transformation Metrics workshop
- Product definition workshop
- Initial Product Backlog Refinement
- Educating the teams in new ways of working
- Creating Definition Of Done
- Defining Team Composition
- Teams lift-off
- Facilitating the creation and launch of the communities
- Supporting Scrum Events
- Coaching the Product Owner and the Developers
- Mentoring Scrum Masters
- Working with teams during the Sprints
Observed Outcomes: Increased adaptability supported by lowered Cycle Times
- Product Pivot: from backyard studios to single-family homes
- Several markets unlocked: the product is adapted, tested, and certified for 3 different markets with different requirements: wind load, fire resistance, earthquake resistance
- 64m USD raised in funding during series B due to the achievement of traction goals
- Technology scaled to industrial level to allow production plant opening to support demand
