Ideas for systemic transformation.

Designing Effective Agile Organizations and High-Performing Teams with Sysart Consulting

Transformation is not about people, it is about structure. Change the structure, people and culture will follow …

Suha Selçuk reflects on coaching Scrum teams: curiosity, systems thinking, deliberate experiments, and working with the surrounding organization.

According to the complexity theorem, there is no agent in complex systems who has access to the whole. Because information is localized, and the entire information cannot be entirely centralized. To explain this, it is common to use the example of markets. No one can collect all information about the price fluctuations within a certain time since the information is generated as the result of the local actions continuously.

One advantage of a decentralized organization is the ability to refactor the workflow without changing the organizational structure. If an organization can’t regularly refactor people placement and workflow, it will fail to facilitate rapid initiatives to changes and market demands.

Most agile transformations rename roles and add ceremonies while leaving the decision rights, reporting lines, and incentives untouched. Here is what actually has to change, and how to tell the difference.