Category: Organisational Agilty

For all companies that are now sustaining or gradually restarting their investments in Agile – here is a summary of decades of lessons learned by companies adopting Agile

Many have already explored the trajectory of Agile adoption, the changes in sentiment toward Agile, and the recent challenges.

This is a new look at how the population of Agile practitioners changed over time.

This is my view on the state of Agile in 2024 and the things we can improve. What is yours?

Whether it is to a Subject Matter Expert, an external contractor, an Agency, a Global/shared Function, a Team Topologies’ Platform team or a Complicated subsystem team, when and how can some tasks and/or responsibilities be effectively moved outside the team?

Is there a valid alternative to Agile cross-team collaboration, one of the most consequential topics for successfully adopting Agile beyond one team? Should we tackle Agile cross-team collaboration challenges or transcend them?

This post is a four-part deep dive into the How-Tos of making Agile cross-team collaboration frictionless and enjoyable, in one word: effective. That is one of the most consequential topics for successfully adopting Agile beyond one team. Ironically, none of the current “scaled” solutions cut it.

A collection of short videos, interesting books, and inspiring thought leaders worth following, to test the whitewaters of modern leadership for modern organisations

One-off Vs continuous & ongoing, real-life Vs theatre act

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are, for many organisations, still a relatively new term that, as such, can hold the promise of an idealised future while moving again the goalpost to a later tomorrow.
And the term OKR creates enough ambiguity allowing different conflicting interpretations (e.g. a new fancy name for KPIs) to coexists. But once OKRs are well understood and properly put to practice, are they really good for innovation?

Automation practices in Agile Software Development have an important role. But what about Agile outside IT? What to automate? How to automate?

Outside IT and Software Development, it has become common to adopt Agile practices, but it remains uncommon to adopt Agile technical practices. However, Business Agility, Organisational Agility and Team Agility fall apart without Technical Agility. Let’s see how to adopt Agile technical practices Outside IT and Software Development then.

An alternative to Scaled Frameworks for digital products and services development.

My opinion on scaled agile frameworks, and specifically on SAFe. And an alternative to scaled frameworks.

An summary of the results of companies scaling agile with a heavy-weight framework and companies migrating to a heavy-weight off-the-shelf platform.

A summary with infographic of how large successful companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Spotify, LinkedIn, Netflix and HP LaserJet Firmware achieved agility at scale with tangible and lasting business benefits.