Articles on Organizational Improvement

Learn how complexity tax undermines resilience through poor structure, slow decisions, and conflicting metrics. Practical strategies to simplify and strengthen your organization.

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A fragile organization that goes faster will be knocked over in the slightest wind.

In most organizations, work spends more time waiting to be worked on, than being worked on. To go faster? Look for the queues

Most work items spend more time waiting than actually being worked on

Bring work to teams, not people to projects. Measure value, not busyness

Instead of focusing on being Agile, create a shared vision of what improvement actually looks like

Data and metrics are not synonymous. Velocity won't help your team improve

Models simplify reality, but can dangerously misrepresent what is really going

The more the manager takes control, the more decisions they make, the longer wait times for everything

Traditional titles can be toxic at the team member level because they imply a limitation

Self-organizing teams require managers to support and develop, not direct and control

Forcing change conflicts with the essential human need for autonomy

Is my specific role: QA/BA/UX/.. considered a Developer in Scrum

We've had requests for a single page that lists all the ongoing [Beyond Scrum blog

Seeing an organizational change map with seven to eight proposed major changes can feel

Both Vision and Strategy should be created with input from the whole organization, not just leadership

Define vision for change with a mix senior management, middle management, and doers

If nothing changes, the control focus of the organization will destroy the Agile Improvement

Grow a culture where frequent small changes are the norm as the pace of change increases

Your organization has decided to become more “Agile.” Why? As we learned in a previous

In 201x, the global financial markets collapsed. Reason: mortgages were given to people

Companies are starting to fall into a trap, and it goes something like this, “Our

An example of an Organizational Improvement Teams can using Scrum

Using Scrum for Organizational Improvement, remember to include the people on the gorund

prioritize value delivery over keeping workers constantly busy

To be successful with Scrum in the long term you need more than the basic framework.