Creating agile organizations : a systemic approach

Coaching Agile Organizations helps Scrum Masters leverage Scrum to become effective change agents, and move from coaching a single team to coaching the entire organization. Drawing on extensive experience scaling Scrum at multiple companies worldwide, Cesario Ramos and Ilia Pavlichenko address the unique challenges Scrum Masters encounter when adopting Scrum at the organizational level, and working on organizational design for large products that engage multiple teams across departments. After reviewing the principles, history, and essential roles of the Professional Scrum Master, Cesario and Pavlichenko present concrete tools for facilitating, coaching, and teaching Scrum in the enterprise, from facilitating successful meetings to asking more powerful questions. You'll find Product Definition Guides to help plan your product and project; Feature Heat Maps for defining your team and organizational structures; and much more. Everything's product- and technology-independent, so you can use these tools and techniques in any large environment -- solving or avoiding the specific problems that arise when organizations scale Scrum. This guide will help Scrum Masters, trainers, and leaders to facilitate, coach, and teach Scrum across entire organizations, not just individual teams. Internationally renowned Scrum/Agile coaches Cesario Ramos and Ilia Pavhlichenko focus on the specific challenges that Scrum Masters encounter when adopting Scrum at the enterprise level, when working on organizational design with large products, and multiple teams across many departments and locations. They draw on years of experience scaling Scrum at widely diverse companies worldwide, offering techniques you can use with any technologies, in any environment. After concisely reviewing relevant Professional Scrum Master principles, history, and techniques, Ramos and Pavhlichenko present concrete tools for successfully extending Scrum throughout virtually any large organization. You will find specific solutions for real-world challenges such as preparing and facilitating large scale Scrum meetings, practicing your personal skills more effectively, and asking better questions about organization-wide challenges. You will also find proven tools for large scale Scrum adoption, including a Product Definition Guide to help define the product in a Scrum adoption, and a Feature Heat Map to help define team structure and redesign entire organizations. For Agile to succeed at scale, strategy, structures, processes, reward systems, and people practices must align with and reinforce each other across the entire organization. Creating Agile Organizations is about making that happen. Whether youre a leader, Scrum Master, or trainer, this book will help you use effective Organizational Design (OD) to achieve successful Agile transformation at the enterprise level. Drawing on years of experience scaling Scrum, renowned Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) experts Cesario Ramos and Ilia Pavlichenko present proven techniques for use with any technology, in any large environment. In the context of a true systems-thinking approach, they provide specific solutions for challenges such as preparing and facilitating large-scale Scrum meetings, honing newly relevant leadership skills, and addressing challenges that cut across the entire organization. This book includes a library of tested tools for effective Agile leadership, including Product Definition Guides for describing any new product and a Feature Heat Map for designing teams and entire organizations