by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
by admin | Mar 28, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Feb 19, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Feb 6, 2025 | blog, DAO
Stop Fixing Symptoms – Fix Your Organizational Design Instead by Cesario Ramos. “We have this big specification upfront where we must write all high-level requirements. It takes over 8 months to get it done, and that is their target. Of course, this gives problems...
by Cesario Ramos | Jan 23, 2025 | blog, DAO
8 Principles to Creating Agile Organizations by Cesario Ramos. Last year in Cascais, at our trainer meetup, we found ourselves diving into an intriguing question: What are the principles of Creating Agile Organizations (CAO)? It’s one of those seemingly simple...
by Cesario Ramos | Jan 17, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
by Ilia Pavlichenko | Jan 14, 2025 | experience report
PashaPay Case: improving Agility with CAO By Ilia Pavlichenko – Certified Creating Agile Organizations Trainer. PashaPay is an Azerbaijani fintech that launched in 2022. Its mission is to enable every person to manage their money anytime and anywhere. The company has...
by Cesario Ramos | Jan 13, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Jan 12, 2025 | blog, DAO
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...
by Cesario Ramos | Dec 27, 2024 | blog, DAO
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...
