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The Critical Agile Organization Change Guidelines

23 mei 2022

Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Resisting change during adoption is a normal human reaction. It is not a sign that a team or a particular department lacks courage or abilities. Also, it is not necessarily a sign […]

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How you can define your product group

3 mei 2022

The third blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. What is a Product? A commonly used definition of a product is “something that is made to be sold.”  “A product is anything that can be offered to a market that might […]

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The Critical Agile Organization Design Guideline

28 april 2022

Second blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Many problems at the workplace are not the fault of the individual managers or teams. They are often the result of working in an organizational design(OD) that impedes rather than supports Agility. […]

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What does it mean to be Agile on a large scale?

18 april 2022

​ First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. ​What does it mean to be Agile on a large scale? According to Craig Larman, a renowned consultant, reducing switching costs by learning is resisted most by any organization. Speed of delivery […]

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Who is on the Team in Scrum?

20 mei 2021

The latest revision of the Scrum guide removed the Development Team role with the intention to remove the “us vs. them” dynamic. In this paper Cesario Ramos and Ahmad Fahmy discuss its possible implications. You can find the paper by Cesario Ramos and Ahmad Fahmy on InfoQ

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LeSS Days 2020 |Agile Organization Design Principle by Cesario Ramos

12 december 2020

In this talk, Cesario shares some Agile Organization Design principles. You can use these principles to have a more informed discussion in your agile transformation. See also the upcoming book Coaching Agile Organizations.

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From MeSS to LeSS |The LeSS Pattern Card Game

6 oktober 2020

This is a description of the workshop I did at the LeSS Conference in Amsterdam. You can use this workshop to have a thorough discussion about your new LeSS group or to repair an existing LeSS adoption. For a general workshop, you can use the starting situation I wrote about in my Copy Paste Scaling […]

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De-Scaling with LeSS with Cesario Ramos

15 juni 2020

There are 2 positions you can take when thinking about scaling Scrum. You consider Scrum a team level framework only, and then ask what needs to be added to Scrum to make it fit in your organization. You likely have Copy Paste Scaling and a narrow product definition. You consider Scrum a framework for your […]

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Product Definition in Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) – Part 2

2 mei 2020

This blog is part of a series of previews from my upcoming book Coaching Agile Organisations In the first part of this blog series, I explained how to identify the organizational elements to include in your product definition. In this blog, I explain how you can refine your product definition to organize into effective cross-functional teams. […]

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Scaling Sequence Q&A Kahoot

14 april 2020

You can use this Kahoot Scaling Scrum to have some fun with your team or as an energizer during a workshop or training. Enjoy.

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