Agile Organisation Structure

For me the purpose of Portfolio Management is to prioritise value to be delivered inline with investment themes when you have (or need) multiple delivery streams. When thinking of the organisation as a whole system (ala Systems Thinking) we can’t simply look at how the PMO operates without looking at other factors affecting delivery. One […]

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Hilda the Chicken

How to do Agile Planning without Points

POINTS = £’s (or hours or days) Of course they don’t but I constantly see points being abused within organisations and becoming currency for staff manipulation. “the team only delivered 17 points this week when they said they’d deliver 20. Can the team work the weekend to make up the points they owe us?” Sound […]

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Systemic Flow Mapping – Mature Synergistic Mindset

When an organisation has truly eliminated the chasm between dev and ops, when teams are aligned by value stream, and when you no longer have teams but capabilities, you may be in the Mature Synergistic zone. The organisation depicted in this flow map no longer have any hand off points. All staff that service these value streams […]

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Systemic Flow Mapping – Early Synergistic Mindset

This early synergistic organisation has started to orientate team structure by value stream. They still have big challenges around the last mile of delivery by the constraint introduced by operating a centralised release team. The release team themselves are dependent on many other teams within Ops. This operations team are fully ITIL and COBIT compliant. […]

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Systemic Flow Mapping – Analytic Mindset

Flow within the Analytic organisation is almost non-existant. The Systemic Flow Map above represents a public sector organisation in the UK. The detail is not that important. What is important though is the number of dependencies from many teams throughout the entire organisation. The chasm between Dev and Ops is present and yet the two […]

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