Rethinking Product Groups By Ilia Pavlichenko To choose an appropriate product group design, the article uses portfolio relatedness patterns from Kates & Kesler / Galbraith: single integrated business, a closely related portfolio, and a loosely related portfolio,...
How Your Portfolio Determines the Right Design by Cesario Ramos Portfolio Design Is the Real Scaling Constraint If you’re an experienced agile leader, you’ve probably seen this pattern: Your teams are in good shape: clear goals and steady value delivery....
Designing A Product Group By Ilia Pavlichenko This whitepaper presents a practical, repeatable algorithm for designing a product group — a semi-autonomous organisational unit responsible for the end-to-end creation, development, and financial performance of a product...
Aligning Money and Strategy in Creating Agile Organisations By Cesario Ramos Portfolio management is how we decide where money and people go across customer facing units, business units and platforms so that our investment supports our strategy in resourcing, not just...
Customer Focus, Innovation, Efficiency – Pick One, Your Framework Already Has By Cesario Ramos. Single-Team Scrum: the Swiss Army Knife With one Scrum team, life is simple. You can use Scrum effectively to optimise for pretty much anything: Innovation – focus...
Hierarchy, Connectivity, and the Temptation of AI By Cesario Ramos. Hierarchy is good. It helps executives see the whole picture. Top management gets information from their management systems, analyzes it, and makes strategic decisions. Even better, thanks to strong...
