This is a series of articles (among them are Spotify’s Tribes and Squads and Marty Cagan’s Empowered Product Teams) where we compare and contrast different well-known approaches applicable to product development organizations to help leaders make better org design decisions. For our analysis, we are using a map of seven…

This article has been updated on November the 1st, 2022 to reflect our improved understanding of Marty Cagan’s model. As a result, the conclusion and mapping has been changed. TL;DR This is a series of articles (among them are analysis of Spotify’s Tribes and Squads and Team Topologies) where we compare…

This is a series of articles (among them are Team Topologies and Marty Cagan’s Empowered Product Teams) where we compare and contrast different well-known approaches applicable to product development organizations to help leaders make better org design decisions. We assume you might already be familiar with seven archetypes of the…

Org Topologies is a mapping of recognizable organizational archetypes in product development. We are using the following two axes for creating the two-dimensional map: Grow team-level autonomy — by deepening cross-functionality to become fluent in delivering value fast. Grow customer-centric alignment — by broadening understanding of the problem space. Being…

A (second) short introduction to Org Topologies. ​What is Organizational Topologies? We believe one essential meta objective of every business is to stay resilient for as long as possible in the face of competition and market landscape changes. This means applying an org design that maximizes adaptivity in order to keep discovering constantly changing…

TL;DR This article analyses the transformation of a major bank with org topologies. To understand this article, you first need to know about Org Topologies. Summary of the transformation analysis: An organizational design can be implemented iterative and incrementally. There is no need for “first time right”. There is a need for an opportunity to learn…

We (Alexey Krivitsky and Roland Flemm) are organizational consultants. We have been working for many years in many European companies and observed a large amount of organizational designs for product development. Our mission is: “Help leaders of organizations to discover their vector for org development.”

When I coach, consult and teach classes, I often get questions about creating an agile maturity tool or defining agile maturity metrics. Agile Maturity metrics are used by many businesses to better understand their present agile practices and monitor to improve them. I understand the need for this kind of…

When talking about applying Scrum and Agile, we are hardwired to think about America and Europe, not about Africa. I must confess I am totally ignorant about the status of Scrum and Agile in Africa. Needless to say, I was excited to be invited to Ivory Coast for a PSM-1…