Case Study: Y Soft LeSS adoption, long term experience report by Y Soft themselves
Disclaimer: this is re-sharing what Y Soft has shared on their platform earlier and has been distributed through means of social media. It is mentioned in their article that sharing is caring and in that sense we want to contribute in their quest to sharing their story to the world. They share a story of […]
Case Study – applying LeSS Kaikaku (Flip-Forward) events
A Kaikaku event is there to facilitate a serious system change to grow product development capabilities within an organization. One can go with Kaizen events and related incremental improvement until the limits of the system you apply them in, in order to improve further one will need to apply some kind of Kaikaku or choose […]
20 New Year’s Resolutions for Managers in a Scrum Environment
The end of the year is nearby, time for some New Year’s resolutions! It has become a tradition for us to provide some help to busy people coming up with some good (enough) new year’s resolutions. This year we want to support Managers out there struggling to survive within a Scrum oriented organization. Here are […]
Case Study: Y Soft LeSS Adoption – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
We are proud to spread the experience going from multi-layered, firefighting, complicated strutures to simple, flat structures at one of our customers in Czech: Y Soft. This is a recording of a talk held at the LeSS Conference 2019 in Munich and published by InfoQ where you’ll discover how things started, how we supported them through our […]
Outcome Based Product Backlogs in Large-Scale Scrum
Many organisations are struggling to setup outcome based Product Backlog for their teams, they were stuck in output or scope based backlogs before and kept that behavior. Even though scope isn’t a bad thing, understanding its link to business outcomes and what assumptions are behind is (to me) better. I do address this working with Product […]
The Shocking Truth about Firefighting in I.T. Organizations!
Why are there so many IT people out there who have the feeling they’re actually a firefighter? Why do they have the feeling to be jumping from one burning house to another? Why do they have the feeling work is driven by fire alarms? Why is it that the loudest voice in the office, the […]
Re-Thinking the Organization: Sociocracy 3.0 – Reversify – LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)
If you are not moving at the speed of the marketplace you’re already dead – you just haven’t stopped breathing yet. – Jack Welch The organizational structure in which most of us operate today can be quite an obstacle to respond adequately to a fast-changing business environment. In fact, traditional organizational structures are not designed […]
How organizations go nuts?
It is amazing how easily organizations go nuts in the sense of complicated structures, amount of roles, process and so on and the reasons are very obvious. Organizations with money to spend will make mistakes by going for quick solutions and not allowing their teams to find more appropriate ways to deal with issues at […]
How to find your ikigai
Ikigai is a Japanese concept meaning “a reason for being“. Everyone, according to the Japanese, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is regarded as being very important, since it is believed that discovery of one’s ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life. Many (smart) organisations are trying to find a way to motivate […]
12 enemies of adaptability and what to do about it
Hierarchy Top-down, control based hierarchies discourage individual initiative, lead to slower reaction times, and divert energy to “managing up” or what is called politics. These politics will optimize your organization to CYA (Cover Your Ass), loss of productivity, and an aversion of risk, resulting in a standstill culture. Fear Command-and-control systems lead to organizations filled with […]