Aligning the Product, Platform, and Solution Group by Cesario Ramos. Back in the day, I started working with XP teams. Things were great: cracking out code, writing tests, and doing this super cool thing called continuous integration. Yes, there was even this free CI...
Making Strategic Tradeoffs with Clarity by Cesario Ramos. Across organizations of all sizes, I hear the same concerns. They are all expressed different but the common theme is: “Won’t embedded specialists be underutilized?” “Isn’t decentralization too costly or...
Designing for What Your Strategy Demands by Cesario Ramos. You might think agility is something you apply uniformly. And if you are working in a large org, you have probably heard someone propose that “we all should have one way of working”. A standard way...
Agile™: Now Available in 17 New Colours by Cesario Ramos. The Agile community started with a clear goal: to uncover better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Along the way, it was also about helping organizations become more adaptive and...
From Value Dimensions To Organization Design by Cesario Ramos. New tools, frameworks, and best practices seem to appear every week—and many organizations adopt them without stepping back to ask a simple, but critical question: Does this support the way we compete? At...
Evolving Agile Frameworks by Cesario Ramos. Change is a natural part of any organization. People move on, technology advances, and new challenges arise. At the same time, markets shift, customer expectations evolve, and competition increases. If your organization...