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Are you familiar with Agile Organization Design?
What is Agile Organization Design? It’s a powerful approach to designing organizations that allows for adaptability to customer demands. According to organizational design expert Jay Galbraith, there are five key components that make up an effective organizational design: strategy, structures, processes, reward systems, and people practices. When these components are aligned and support each other, the […]
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Creating Agile Organizations Interview with Cesario Ramos
Diego Callizo interviewed Cesario Ramos about his new book. We kept the interview short (20′) and to the point. Here are some of the insights: -How can managers benefit from this book?-The risk of rolling back #change-Ratio of organisations transforming successfully.-Why transformations never end?
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What does your Team Optimize For?
What does your Team Optimize For? The canvas below shows four characteristics of development teams. On the y-axis, you can plot the level of cross domain work your team picks up. It goes from working on a Single Domain (top) to working on the Whole Product Domain ( bottom ). On the x-axis, you can […]
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Creating Agile Organisations
Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the book: Creating Agile Organizations. A Systems Thinking Approach to Creating an Agile Organization Why do people repeat the same unsuccessful behavior in organizations? Why do certain problems in organizations seem to appear again and again? Why aren’t improvement actions leading to the expected results? What is […]
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Designing the Product Owner Role
The eighth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. In this blog, a short description of one workshop from Chapter 11: Guiding The Product Ownership. Avoid Product-Part Owners Misconceptions about the Product Owner (PO) role often lead to reduced agility, development […]
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Guiding Teams in Multi-Skill Development
The seventh blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Individual and Team Performance A Scrum Team is multidisciplinary and contains a whole arsenal of skills and competencies to deliver value to users. The workload on a single specialty is mostly uneven […]
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Guiding the organization in multi-skill development
The sixth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. A successful team works together towards serving the business goals. The team skills required to do that are always changing. For example, a top technology at the moment will likely not be […]
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How to Launch your Product Group
The fifth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Blog post How You Can Define Your Product Group described how to create an initial definition of the product by examining organizational functions and components and considering their dependency types. In this blog, we […]
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The Critical Agile Organization Change Guidelines
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
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
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?
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?
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
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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De-Scaling with LeSS with Cesario Ramos
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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Systems Thinking in organizational coaching
In this article, we will be sharing an example of organizational coaching, in which we successfully applied the Systems Thinking approach. We were working with a service organization and found fundamental solutions to several chronic problems. We believe that effective organizational coaching is not possible without Systems Thinking. Why Systems Thinking Large organizations are complex […]
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LeSS adoption at a Large Dutch Bank
This article is about how we improved on the Dutch Bank Spotify inspired model in a tribe. We work with over 20 teams on our Business Lending product. We develop our product across 3 sites, with dispersed teams. Each team contains business, IT and operations skills. In this configuration we deliver valuable product for our […]
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“Take responsibility! It’s your responsibility, so take it!”
I’m not happy. I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.— Beverly Sill Hi, my name is Irina Skrypnik and I would like to introduce the topic of responsibility for us to discuss and practice. When I […]
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A Scrum Book: The Spirit of Scrum is released
After 9 years of hard work, we finally have the beta release of our book – A Scrum Book: The Spririt of the Game. Final publication will be in a few months, but the digital version is already available. In October Cesario Ramos & James Coplien will provide a special 2 day training about the […]
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Why Isn’t Your Current Approach to Scaling Agile Working?
The paper ‘Why Isn’t Your Current Approach to Scaling Agile Working?” written by Cesario Ramos co-authors with Kurt Bittner was recently published on InfoQ. Having trouble scaling your agility? You’re not alone; even organizations who have agile success in isolated pockets have trouble scaling that agility to the broader organization. The challenges express themselves in […]
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