Creating cross-team collaboration with Multi-team Product Backlog Refinement
This article focuses on refining the Product Backlog with multiple teams at the same time: multi-team Product Backlog Refinement (aka...
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Roland Flemm
- Jul 17
- 7 min
A practical approach to improve the performance of your agile teams
Part 1, improving an A-level ecosystem with horizontal scaling. The organizational archetypes of the Org Topologies™ map can be used to...
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Roland Flemm
- May 27
- 9 min
Case Study: the Business Banking transformation journey at de Volksbank.
De Volksbank is the fourth largest bank in the Netherlands. The bank was formed two hundred years ago from regional savings banks. Today,...
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Roland Flemm
- May 26
- 5 min
Is Kniberg’s Aligned Autonomy matrix still relevant?
You've probably heard of Henrik Kniberg. He worked at Spotify around 2012 when they were pushing the boundaries of scaling agile and...
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Roland Flemm
- May 9
- 7 min
Team coaching with Org Topologies™.
I was asked by a Product Owner to come and have a look at one of his teams. I served him getting Scrum going about 1,5 years ago and he...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Mar 14
- 9 min
Six Practices for Healthy Inter-Team Cohesion
We've recently run a meet-up where we shared a broadened, fresh view of Org Topologies™. This broader view is more aligned with the...
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Roland Flemm
- Mar 2
- 5 min
Org Topologies™ and The Feature Team Adoption Map
While studying organizational design, we created a visual representation of our findings using the Org Topologies™ Map. When explaining...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Feb 28
- 4 min
Set Free the Caged Cheetah: stagnated agile and productization as a way out
We've noticed this post by Al Shalloway with a key quote from it: "I don’t see Agile as dead, or even dying. But it has stagnated" In our...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Jan 12
- 10 min
Case-Study: Studying LeSS Adoption at Poster with Org Topologies™ Scans
Poster POS Inc. (or Poster) is a cloud-based SaaS automation for small-to-midsize businesses in the hospitality industry, also known as...
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Roland Flemm
- Dec 8, 2022
- 9 min
Using Org Topologies™ to Analyze the Agile transformation journey at a large dutch bank.
TL;DR This article analyses the transformation of a major bank with org topologies. To understand this article, you first need to know...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Nov 7, 2022
- 8 min
Seven Archetypes of Org Topologies™
Org Topologies™ is a mapping of recognizable organizational archetypes in product development. We are using the following two axes for...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Nov 6, 2022
- 4 min
Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency
Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. We just love it. With this model, you start seeing your journey as a series of paradigm shifts...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Oct 27, 2022
- 19 min
How Adaptive are Team Topologies?
TL;DR This is a series of articles (among them are Spotify's Tribes and Squads and Marty Cagan's Empowered Product Teams) where we...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Oct 22, 2022
- 14 min
Analyzing Marty Cagan's Empowered Product Teams
This article has been updated on November 1st, 2022 to reflect our improved understanding of Marty Cagan's model. As a result, the...
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Alexey Krivitsky
- Oct 1, 2022
- 10 min
Tribes and Squads. How adaptive is that?
TL;DR This is a series of articles (among them are Team Topologies and Marty Cagan's Empowered Product Teams) where we compare and...
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