HR’s Role in Agile Success by Cesario Ramos. Over the years, I’ve had many management conversations about HR policies in Agile setups. Questions like: “How should performance appraisals work in Agile organizations?” “How do we develop multi-skilled people?” “How do we...
Requirement Areas vs. Value Areas: Different Perspectives, Both Essential by Cesario Ramos In organization design, one thing you need to do is evaluate which activities your group needs perform to deliver on its purpose. Based on these activities you can then find the...
5 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 by Cesario Ramos. Many people seem to like a good “5 easy steps” format, so let me use this format for something that’s not so simple: Creating Agile Organizations (CAO). As you might know, CAO is not about frameworks or...
Outcomes Are the Result—Capabilities Are the Key by Cesario Ramos. It seems that at Toyota they say, “Improve for improvement’s sake.” The many books on Toyota TPS tell us they don’t focus on quick fixes or chasing short-term goals. Instead, they build systems and...
Agile Promises improvements, But Why Do We Keep Adding People? by Cesario Ramos. An executive recently posed a thought-provoking question:”We’ve been practicing Agile for seven years. It’s supposed to bring improvements, right? But we keep adding people. Where...
