An article by Dave van Herpen who led break out session during conference on Organizational Design. The objective of the workshop was to share practical do’s and dont’s on how to drive true organizational change towards self-organizing teams, to deal with the turbulent markets these organizations find themselves in. YThis was during a highly interactive event “Fit for the Future,” enabled by CIO Platform Nederland and the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA).
First, their group of industry leaders identified several bottlenecks, which currently block their organizations from adopting Agile and DevOps behaviors. Their main bottlenecks included:
- Product Owners are regularly overruled or passed by business owners
- Suppliers are either not used to or not stimulated to become self-organizing
- Teams face conflicting objectives and priorities from other teams
- There is always too much focus on the Development (Dev) teams during the transformation
- DevOps teams have no time to understand the needs of regulators
… and more.
After discussing these major bottlenecks, the group also defined multiple good practices to mitigate these potential bottlenecks, such as:
- Using explicit color coding in teams, to balance different types of work and varied interests
- Invite suppliers to (big room) planning sessions
- Create value streams with clear and shared goals
- Consistently include regulatory and compliance aspects in the prioritization
… and more. to get the full list follow link to the orginal article. Well done!
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