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Augmenting Organizational Agility Through Learnability Quotient (LQ) - an Architect’s Perspective

By creating a robust learning framework for the organization, and involving architects and other key technical leaders, Halodoc improved their organizational agility.

Abhijith Krishnappa
on Jul 08, 2021
Culture & Methods

Improving Organizational Agility with Self-Management

This article presents "self-management" as a possibility to natively support agility to plant seeds and let both institutions and people thrive and benefit from it. Agility may go hand-in-hand with self-management as a way to shift mindsets and open a conversation to really find new ways of working in organizations.

Massimo Lavelli Pietro Antolini
on Feb 10, 2021
Culture & Methods

Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide: Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a “lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems”. An interview with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about the changes to the guide.

Ben Linders Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland
on Dec 24, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Dynamic Reteaming (2-ed)

In the 2nd edition of her book Dyanamic Reteaming, Heidi Helfand shows that having stable teams is generally unrealistic and that there are ways to effectively reform teams to achieve great outcomes. She explores different approaches to team formation and reformation and provides practical advice on how to create environments where team formation can adapt and evolve effectively.

Heidi Helfand Shane Hastie
on Aug 22, 2020 1
Culture & Methods

Software Teams and Teamwork Trends Report Q1 2020

The Culture & Methods editors team present their take on the topics that are at the front of the technology adoption curve: how to make teams and teamwork more effective, in person or remote, some new tools and techniques, some ideas that have been around for a while and are starting to gain traction, the push for professionalism, ethical behavior and being socially and environmentally aware.

Ben Linders Douglas Talbot Evan Leybourn Craig Smith Shaaron A Alvares Rafiq Gemmail Shane Hastie
on Mar 31, 2020
DevOps

What’s Next in DevOps?

The DevOps movement continues to grow and gain influence in the IT world and the business world at large. As the organisations become increasingly digital, the agility of our IT systems becomes critical to the life and health of the companies.

Andrew Davis
on Mar 27, 2020
Culture & Methods

How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free

There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem

Stephen Bungay Antoine Merour
on Dec 09, 2019 6
Culture & Methods

Power to the People: Unleashing Teams through Liberating Structures

Liberating Structures are a great way for teams to find their voice. They make this happen by asking us to think creatively about the kinds of invitations we are making, and by subverting the normal power dynamics in a meeting. In this article, Greg Myer shares how he is using Liberating Structures at Capital One.

Greg Myers
on Jun 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Elastic Leadership

The book Elastic Leadership by Roy Osherove shows how teams have a need for different types of leadership depending on the state that they are in and what can be done to grow teams towards true self-organization. It provides values, techniques, and practices that leaders can use in their daily work.

Ben Linders Roy Osherove
on May 16, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book OpenSpace Beta - A Handbook for Organizational Transformation in Just 90 Days

The book OpenSpace Beta by Silke Hermann and Niels Pflaeging describes an invitation-based approach for rapid and lasting organizational change using concepts such as OpenSpace and the BetaCodex. It provides a visual timeline with roles and components to guide a co-creation based transformation.

Niels Pflaeging Ben Linders Silke Hermann
on Apr 02, 2019
Culture & Methods

Culture & Methods – the State of Practice in 2019

The latest Culture and Methods Topic Graph shows the topics that the editorial team feels are gaining traction and should be explored at the beginning of 2019.

Susan McIntosh Craig Smith Ben Linders Rui Miguel Ferreira Shaaron A Alvares Shane Hastie Rafiq Gemmail Charles Humble
on Mar 14, 2019
Culture & Methods

How to Make Cross-Functional Operations a Team Effort

Increase transparency, facilitate the flow of communication, and increase productivity across your organization by cultivating the right approach and best practices in team building. Cross-functional collaboration lets you leverage the power of individual capabilities as well as teamwork to accelerate and improve operational effectiveness.

Dipti Parmar
on Dec 19, 2018