In my previous posts I have shown how to describe organization structures in a way different from the typical hierarchical line management top-down tree. Because communication is at the heart of any organization that wants to be agile, with self-organizing teams and an innovation culture, the communication paths are the primary feature of the organization … weiterlesen →
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Communities are Communication Bridges
In my last post I made my case for describing organizations in terms of communication structures. Persons that are interacting much with each other should be in one cluster within the organization. Bridges between clusters are needed and are created by communication paths between at least one member of each cluster. By crossing multiple bridges … weiterlesen →
Agile and Organizational Structures
Putting up a Kanban board or holding daily Scrum meetings does not make an agile organization. Neither does the adherence to all the Scrum or Kanban – or whatever else – rules. You may even succeed in becoming really agile on a micro basis in your organization: The teams get a beautifully groomed backlog from … weiterlesen →
You can do everything with kanban – even make many mistakes
Recently we went to a meeting of media and software agency user groups, where we were shown their use of agile methods. No big surprise was the story that we have often heard: a big project with a big team, a long running time and several participating companies ran into some problems. They decide to … weiterlesen →