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Pipedrive Agile Framework: How a Unicorn Company Customized Agile Processes to Scale
Pipedrive would not have become a unicorn company by using a standard off-the-shelf agile framework. Instead, the company created its own framework. It makes a distinction between Mission Teams versus Launchpads and relies heavily on dynamic reteaming. In Pipedrive's Agile Framework, the product managers pitch new ideas and software engineers volunteer to lead their Mission Teams.
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Using Patterns to Drive a Transformation towards Agility - Practical Insights from Large Companies
In the DACH region, a community of transformation leaders from about 30 companies started “DACH30” sessions where they share experiences and insights from their efforts to help their companies become more agile. This article highlights successful patterns to foster change, how to apply flow-oriented design to optimise your delivery capabilities, and the danger of the illusion of control.
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Moving from Agile Teams towards an Agile Organization
For organizational agility, we need to improve the system for teams and individuals to thrive, instead of expecting them to change and fix the culture. This article explores some elements from a systemic point of view that are essential to create the right conditions for moving from agile teams towards an agile organization.
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Decentralised Development: Common Pitfalls and how Value Stream Management can Avoid Them
Big businesses often learn about Agile methodologies and start breaking up their teams to be more product-oriented. But this exposes teams to pitfalls affecting three main areas: risk, dependencies and governance. This article identifies these challenges, and introduces value stream management as an answer –the author explores what this is and how businesses can implement it effectively.
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A Transformation Journey for a Distributed Development Organization
Agile transformations are never easy, but are even more challenging than usual when it comes to geographically distributed teams. This article highlights experiences from Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub program and shares the methods that helped them on their journey. It's about the organization, processes, but most importantly, about the people and the mindset.
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Why Isn't Your Current Approach to Scaling Agile Working?
Organizations struggle to scale their agility. While every organization is different, common patterns explain the major challenges that most organizations face: organizational design, trying to copy others, “one-size-fits-all” scaling, scaling in siloes, and neglecting engineering practices. This article explains why, what to do about it, and how the three leading scaling frameworks compare.