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Our articles and video’s about Creating Agile Organizations (CAO) principles and practices. You can also read about the fundamental elements of the CAO approach, its axioms, principles and guidelines in our free Creating Agile Organisations guide. This guide helps organisations on their journey towards agile organisational design, ensuring they are well equipped to navigate the complexities and challenges of the modern business environment.
How to Define Your Product for Agile Success
Exciting Insight on Product Definition! The world of Agile product development A critical yet often overlooked aspect is defining your product...
Creating Agile Organizations Explained in 5 min
Cesario Ramos explains the Creating Agile Organizations approach in this short video. [video width="1280" height="720"...
Incremental Change in E-Commerce Product Development
Incremental Change in E-Commerce Product Development By Konstantin Ribel – Certified Creating Agile Organizations Trainer. Preface This experience...
FiloGrant’s Agile Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
FiloGrant's Agile Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic By Jeroen Valkier – Certified Creating Agile Organizations Trainer. Business Adaptability to...
Applying CAO Guidelines at a Big German Insurance Company
Applying CAO Guidelines at a Big German Insurance Company By Wolfgang Steffens – Certified Creating Agile Organizations Trainer. This experience...
Measure Transformation, Not Conformation
Measure Transformation, Not Conformation The core of agile isn’t conforming to some framework but the ability to adapt, respond, and deliver value...
Creating Agile Organizations For LeSS Coaches
In his talk, Cesario shares what you can do with Creating Agile Organizations as an Agile Coach and how it differs from LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)....
A Discussion about Agile Organizational Design
Host Dave West of Scrum.org interviews the authors of the book, Creating Agile Organizations, A Systemic Approach, Cesario...
Evolving Your Own Framework
Evolving Your Agile Organizational Framework By Cesario Oliveira Ramos Meet Sara, a driven product director who's always up for a challenge. But...
Designing organizational structures, inside-out? Outside-in? Mixed?
Designing organizational structures, inside-out? Outside-in? Mixed? by Jurgen de Smet - Certified Creating Agile Organizations Trainer. When one...
Interview with Cesario Ramos by John Coleman
Cesario Ramos on Creating Agile Organizations What is a Product? Where do former Product Owners go? And Dealing With Dependencies....
Creating Agile Organizations: Designing Your Path to Agility
Creating Agile Organizations: Designing Your Path to Agility The Creating Agile Organizations approach is about designing your own organizational...
Enabling Multifunctional Learning
Cross-functional teams are capable of quickly testing hypotheses and adapting to changes in the market. They are the primary block of an Agile organization. Unfortunately, the load on different specializations and skills within the team is uneven due to the unexpected nature of the upcoming work in a complex environment. Scrum Masters and management, when faced with failures in their initiatives related to multifunctional learning, conclude that people do not want to learn. But they forget that people’s behavior is a product of the system. People are glad to learn when organizational design supports multifunctional development.
When you sub optimize, it’ll bite you in the ass.
When you sub-optimize, it’ll bite you in the ass. by Jurgen de Smet - Certified Creating Agile Organizations Trainer. A Hard Team Setup Constraint A...
Shared Services Internal Product At BMW / Autonomous Driving
Shared Services Internal Product At BMW / Autonomous Driving by Denis Sunny - Certified Creating Agile Organizations Trainer. Introduction In the...
Building for Agility: The Role of Commodity Platforms
Building for Agility: The Role of Commodity Platforms One of my clients had a platform called the “Internet channel” that was intended to increase...
Adaptivity Podcast with Cesario Ramos: Creating Agile Organizations
Adaptivity Podcast with Cesario Ramos: Creating Agile Organizations We talked about the following topics key impediments to adaptivity defining...
Unlocking Agile Success: Aligning Your Organizational Design with Strategic Focus
Unlocking Agile Success: Aligning Your Organizational Design with Strategic Focus Agile organizational characteristics are crucial, but they alone...
Product Titanics – how modern organizations waste adaptability
Product Titanics - how modern organizations waste adaptability This article is a part of the blog series about the book: Creating Agile...
Are you familiar with Agile Organization Design?
What is Agile Organization Design? It's a powerful approach to designing organizations that allows for adaptability to customer demands. According...
Develop Enterprise Agility With Product Groups
Develop Enterprise Agility With Product Groups Cross-functional team is the basic structural block in Scrum. It is a self-managed unit that...
Agile Uprising Podcast with Cesario Ramos organizational design
Agile Uprising Podcast with Cesario Ramos organizational design Podcast about the importance of organizational design and how it directly impacts...
LeSS Conference Talk – The 3 critical Agile Organization Design Guidelines
LeSS Conference Talks - The 3 critical Agile Organization Design Guidelines Cesario talks about the 3 critical Agile Organization Design Guidelines...
Video – How to Create an Agile Organization
Video - How to Create an Agile Organization Creating agile organizations is hard work, requires patience, humour, and long-term commitment. It can...
Cesario talks about Evolving your own framewok at ScrumDay Barcelona.
Cesario talks about Evolving your own framewok at ScrumDay Barcelona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdYimuMTh8I
The Critical Agile Organization Design Guideline
The Critical Agile Organization Design Guideline Second blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A...
The Critical Agile Organization Change Guidelines
The Critical Agile Organization Change Guidelines Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic...
What does it mean to be Agile on a large scale?
First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approachby Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko....
Guiding The Organization in Multi-Skills development
Guiding The Organization in Multi-Skills development The sixth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A...
What does Your Team Optimize For?
What does your Team Optimize For? The canvas below shows four characteristics of development teams. On the y-axis, you can plot the level of...
Designing the Product Owner Role
Designing the Product Owner Role The eighth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations – A Systemic Approach,...
Creating Agile Organizations Interview with Cesario Ramos
Diego Callizo interviewed Cesario Ramos about his new book. We kept the interview short (20′) and to the point. Here are some of the insights: How...
Creating Agile Organizations
Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the book: Creating Agile Organizations. A Systems Thinking Approach to Creating an Agile...