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...
Trapped in an Operating Model While Culture Eats Your Strategy by Cesario Ramos. If you confuse operating models with org design, you’re likely solving symptoms while the system stays broken What is an Operating Model? One of the clearest and most enduring definitions...
More Teams, More Problems? Fix The Org-Design First. by Cesario Ramos. You have likely been faced with this challenge: “Should we hire more teams to speed up delivery because we are not going to meet our deadlines as things stand today.” Fair question. But...
