Sat.Jan 18, 2020

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Six ingredients of agile organizational design

Scrum.org

In this article, I want to clarify the need for agility in modern businesses and what agility in organisational design actually is. Today’s mainstream organisation structures are systems we inherited from the industrial era when employees were illiterate and the leaders were educated, market-entry criteria were high and markets were predictable. We see that the future of many established businesses has become uncertain.

Agile 180
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Project paradoxes

Musings on Project Management

So, here we go again, yet another list. In this case: five paradoxes, but nonetheless attention-getting. As written by Tomas Nielsen and Patrick Meehan, we're told: Radically innovate while optimizing operations Compete in sprints while delivering long term value Integrate external partners while acting as a single entity Recognize that providing immediate digital value plays a large role.