by Cesario Ramos | Apr 21, 2026 | blog, certification, course, DAO
Designing HR For Agile Organizations By Cesario Ramos & Stephan Scholten From the executive summary of the paper What happens when people set their own goals, own their own growth, and evendetermine their own pay? Visma Roxit asked that question when we decided to...
by Cesario Ramos | Mar 8, 2026 | blog, certification, course, DAO
How AI Is Changing the Logic of Organization Design by Cesario Ramos I have spent 10s of years helping organizations improve for adaptability, flow, and end-to-end ownership. Mostly through Scrum, Emergent, LeSS, and Creating Agile Organizations(CAO). And I keep...
by Cesario Ramos | Feb 20, 2026 | blog, certification, course, DAO
The One-Page Map That Makes Strategy Executable by Cesario Ramos A Strategy Alignment Map in CAO (adapted from Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (2000). Having trouble with your strategy? Then map it. Harvard Business Review) is the one-page bridge between strategy...
by Ilia Pavlichenko | Jan 26, 2026 | blog, certification, course, DAO
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,...
by Cesario Ramos | Jan 19, 2026 | blog, certification, course, DAO
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....
by Ilia Pavlichenko | Dec 16, 2025 | blog, certification, course, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Dec 12, 2025 | blog, certification, course, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Nov 28, 2025 | blog, certification, course, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Oct 31, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Sep 12, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
