» Organizational design principles for scaling and a summary of their impact «

Bas Vodde


Abstract

Adaptive organizations are optimized to maximize value delivery and the ability to respond to changes in its environment, as opposed to efficiency and predictability. This has been the goal of the agile development movement. Unfortunately agile often ends up in organizations as a shallow process change without having a big impact. Agile processes do have it’s place but in order to achieve adaptiveness organizations have to create simpler organizational structures.

This session will go over the seven organizational design principles to create simpler organization. Some examples will be shared for each principle usually taken from the LeSS organizational design system. The outcome of this session is an insight in the reasoning behind LeSS or an inspiration to make your organization simpler and more adaptive.

Bio

Bas Vodde is a coach, programmer, trainer, and author related to modern agile and lean product development. He is the creator of the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework for scaling agile development. He coaches organizations on three levels: organizational, team, individual/technical practices. He has trained thousands of people in software development, Scrum, and modern agile practices for over a decade.

Bas works for Odd-e, a company that supports organizations in improving their product development, mostly in Asia and Europe.