Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. We just love it. With this model, you start seeing your journey as a series of paradigm shifts and stages toward higher fluency in Agile: The Agile Fluency model has been as an inspiration for us, when we were designing Org Topologies™. …

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…

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 iteratively and incrementally. There is no need for “first time right”. There is a need for an opportunity to learn…

Poster POS Inc. (or Poster) is a cloud-based SaaS automation for small-to-midsize businesses in the hospitality industry, also known as HoReCa (Hotels-Restaurant-Catering). The business was founded in Ukraine around 2013 and has shown a very high level of resilience since then. The HoReCa industry has been severely affected by Covid-19…

We’ve noticed this post by Al Shalloway with a key quote from it: “I don’t see Agile as dead, or even dying. But it has stagnated” In our understanding, agile has stagnated because it is either being used locally at a team-level abused at scale by different enterprise frameworks. We…

While studying organizational design, we created a visual representation of our findings using the Org Topologies™ Map. When explaining our concepts at various conferences and meetups, some people ask questions about the relationship between the Feature Team Adoption Map (FTAM, as known from LeSS) and our Org Topologies™ Map (OTM)…

De Volksbank is the fourth largest bank in the Netherlands. The bank was formed two hundred years ago from regional savings banks. Today, de Volksbank focuses on consumers, independent entrepreneurs, and small and medium-sized enterprises. The bank operates mainly in the areas of payments, savings, and mortgages. In 2021 a…

Part 1, improving an A-level ecosystem with horizontal scaling. The organizational archetypes of the Org Topologies™ map can be used to plot organization designs that we refer to as ecosystems. …

You’ve probably heard of Henrik Kniberg. He worked at Spotify around 2012 when they were pushing the boundaries of scaling agile and experimenting with new organizational designs. At the time, Kniberg created an interesting graph that became known as the Aligned Autonomy matrix. He used this graph to describe the…