Ideas for systemic transformation.

The reality is that there is a discrepancy between the hype and the actual state of play. For every truly agile organization, there are countless more who have merely scratched the surface or stumbled in their efforts.

A systemic approach to Agile transformation emphasizes the interconnectedness of various elements in an organization. It suggests that the transformation should not just be limited to the processes but should also permeate the organizational culture, strategies, and structures.

The Scrum framework is a prime example of a system that embodies the principles of emergence and interrelated entities.

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The use of Scrum patterns, combined with a systemic approach, provides teams with a set of proven solutions to common challenges and promotes continuous improvement. Overall, incorporating systems thinking into Scrum can help teams and organizations achieve higher levels of productivity, quality, and innovation.

A systemic approach to Scrum teams involves examining the interdependencies between team members, roles, processes, tools, and the wider organizational context. It also involves identifying and removing any obstacles or inefficiencies that hinder the team’s ability to function as a self-managing unit.

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Agile Coaches/Scrum Masters keep asking me the ways to promote psychological safety. They expect to hear a step by step recipe including a rarely known funny facilitation technique.

The main issue you need to focus on is how the information flows within the organization, more specifically workflows, communication structure, reporting paths, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities. The whole organization includes components, forces, constraints, connections, functions and delays between them. You need to establish a lean system considering all of them.

Now it’s time for “change management”. “You have to change your behavior” your managers need to understand the reason for your resistance.

There cannot be a library of patterns to be applied like a method to design an organization or to increase the performance of teams. Nothing can be implemented blindly to design an organization.

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