Organizational Topologies: a roadmap towards a resilient and adaptive product development organization
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This document introduces the Adaptivity Map, which provides a roadmap for organizational transformation towards being adaptive and agile. The map shows different stages of organizational topology labeled A1 through C3, with the goal of C3 being optimal value delivery across the whole product. It emphasizes that true transformation requires paradigm shifts in how the organization works, such as establishing cross-functional teams or taking full responsibility for end-to-end delivery. Jumping directly to later stages like C3 from A2 can be an effective approach for organizations with around 50 people. The map is intended as a guide rather than a mandatory process, as transformations will vary in approach and speed depending on each organization's needs.
Organizational Topologies: a roadmap towards a resilient and adaptive product development organization
- 1. Organizational Topologies featuring Adaptivity Map : a map to guide your agile transformation a roadmap towards a resilient and adaptive product development organization © 2021-2022 Roland Flemm, Alexey Krivitsky orgtopologies.com
- 2. Where are you in your agile transformation? 1. Who is about to start? 2. Who is in the middle of it? 3. Who is finished?
- 3. An agile transformation is a never-ending journey towards perfection.
- 4. Perfection State: The ability of an organization to choose to work on whatever is important. Whenever they want it. At no extra costs.
- 6. Adaptivity as the perfection state.
- 7. That’s us:
- 9. We’ve learned, implementation of a framework can distract you from the transformation journey.
- 11. So instead, we find it valuable to talk about: 1. Goal 2. Current state 3. Options
- 12. That is what maps offer
- 13. We started to use organizational archetypes to map transformation journeys
- 15. A1
- 16. Goal of A1 Optimizing for resource utilization of cost centers (not agile)
- 17. A1
- 18. A2 A1
- 20. A1 A2
- 21. Goal of A2 Optimizing for quick wins & conflict avoidance
- 22. A1 A2 A1 -> A2 paradigm shift:
- 23. A1 -> A2 paradigm shift: “Stable cross-functional teams are a building block of the organization”
- 24. A1 A2
- 25. A1 A2 A3
- 26. https://youtu.be/zQNzyM7cDb8 watch first 20 seconds for now
- 27. A1 A2
- 28. Goal of A3 Optimizing the flow of feature delivery
- 29. A1 A2 A3 A2 -> A3 paradigm shift:
- 30. A2 -> A3 paradigm shift: “Teams need to be end-to-end” (100% Definition of Done)
- 32. Are we done?
- 33. Is the organization fully Adaptive? So is the agile transformation done?
- 34. https://youtu.be/zQNzyM7cDb8 watch the rest of the video
- 35. Fluency at working on the whole product
- 36. B3
- 39. Goal of B3 Optimizing for control on business goals & customer experience
- 40. B2
- 43. If you have a backlog per team (after an ‘agile transformation’) then you’re de facto at A2.
- 44. Using modern terminology and paying for industry standard consulting sometimes isn’t enough
- 45. We are sorry.
- 46. C3
- 47. Consider how adaptive this org is
- 49. Goal of C3 “Optimizing for value delivery on the whole product”
- 50. This one looks like a very simple org
- 51. A -> B -> C paradigm shifts
- 53. Conclusions…
- 54. Implementing an “agile framework” can’t be a transformational goal
- 55. An organization needs to transform along two axes: Team and Product
- 56. For LeSS-minded people: This is not an incremental approach to adopt LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum). This is an incremental approach to explain / understand LeSS
- 57. You don’t have to follow each box on the journey to perfection. You can jump levels. A typical good transformation for a product group of around 50 people is a one-time jump from A2 to C3.
- 58. Progressing on the map is hard as it requires realizing paradigm shifts
- 59. And a paradigm shift requires structural changes. Because: culture follows structure.
- 60. Thank you! Download the latest version of the map and these slides at orgtopologies.com © 2021-2022 Roland Flemm, Alexey Krivitsky