6 year old soccer Who out there has watched their kids play a team sport at a young age. It is certainly a sight to behold, and its alot of fun. Some other truths.. No one knows how/when to participate No one is taking accountability outside of coaches and referees Everyone is interfering with each […]
In my previous post I discussed the various agile practices that can be used to scale from self-organizing teams to ecosystems of self-forming teams. In this post I will focus on how members of teams in an Agile Ecosystem can collaborate to perform the Long Term Planning required to understand if they are organized for […]
Like this article? Read more in my book on Agile Organizational Design! The Need to Constantly Evolve Your Organizing Structures As I mentioned over the course of my book, if you want to foster organizational structure that increases agility, then you need to organize around your most important outcomes. We don’t know up-front what most important […]
In my last article I sacrificed team stability for the sake of team independence. In this article ill state there is no such thing as (completely) independent teams. Please don’t hate me. Again, take a second to think about the value your team is trying to create. Perhaps we are talking a software application delivery team. The […]
Agile Ecosystem You are part of a tightly connected ecosystem of teams focused on a common cause. Problem You are trying to deliver value to the market however there is more work to be done than could be accomplished by one single team. As you take on extra work required to scale, you spin up […]
Like this article? read more in my book on Agile Organizational Design In my last article, I stated that there can be very real structural challenges you can face when organizing into agile teams. I presented a few controversial statements and promised to elaborate. Ok, here goes my first one. Stable Teams Erode Agility. There, I said […]
A few days ago, I shared my thoughts on why Agile Teams Are Awesome, and when they work, the experience is indeed amazing. When teams operate with a mindset that favors radical transparency, customer participation, feedback, and diversity, we end up with a structure that enables them effective self organize. And we get this without restricting ourselves to […]
My book on Agile Organizational Design is based on the premise that a resilient organizational design is built by scaling out agile teams, and putting structures in place to support those agile teams. What do we mean by an “Agile” team, and why would we want to use this concept as our primary unit of […]
The concept of placing people into independent, autonomous teams is at the core of agility, and finally, I talk about the Dedicated Team Member as the last article on my series about Team Collaboration Patterns. As discussed previously, I use these various patterns as a means to represent the different ways people can engage and interact with each […]
The concept of placing people into stable, market facing teams is at the core of Agile Organizational Design. But we won’t always be able to accomplish every thing we want through the use of long lived, stable teams. Often we want to encourage people to collaborate outside of the “official” organizational structure. As organization’s scale […]
