CoPs provided the energy and drive required to uncover opportunities at every level in any organizational unit, and so pull the company forward.

1. Communities of Practice
the not-so-hidden force behind your company's
Agility
Norma Acevedo Lopez / Almudena Rodriguez Pardo

2. Norma ACEVEDO LOPEZ
Large-scaled Scrum
 Organizational Agent REWE Digital
 25 years Ericsson
 PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI - ACP®)
 Professional Scrum Master (PSM®)
 Certified SAFe® SA
 Product Deployment Manager.
 Trainer, Speaker & Moderator
 Agile Consultant

3. We are
REWE DigitalREWE Digital

5. › Business Agility Consultant & trainer at Improvement21
› 22 years in the telecommunication industry
› Internacional Speaker – Invited Speaker en Agile Tour
London 2015, ScanAgile Helsinki 2016, Agile Practitioners
Israel 2017, Agile Serbia Conference 2018, and Keynote
at UCAAT Paris 2018.
› PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI - ACP®)
› Certified SAFe® SPC
› Professional Scrum Master (PSM®)
› IBQMI Certified Agile Coach
Almudena Rodriguez Pardo

6. Our customers are as individual as our services and come from many different
industries.
Further information about us under http://www.improvement21.com/en/
Our Customers

7. Our Services
› Business Agility Consultancy
› Training
› Awareness Talks
› Agile Transformation Projects

8. Management 3.0

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13. Community of practice…

14. Community of practice (COP)
‘groups of people who share a concern or a passion for
something they do and learn how to do it better as they
interact regularly’
Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, 1991

15. From silos…
Design
Systems Integration &
Verification
Function
Test
Customer
Project
Management

16. to…
Design
Systems Integration &
Verification
Function
Test
Customer
Project
Management

17. Virtual teams

18. VIRTUAL TEAMS
Architecture System
Integration
Software
Delivery
Test
Strategy
ScrumOfScrum

20. Our context: Self-Organizing,
cross-functional teams
Teams focus on development and
operation of our App and Web-Shop.
They are structured in squads according
to architectural building blocks.
Guilds are to ensure consistency in
overlying/underlying things.

21. Tribes & squads at REWE
Tribe
Squad
Tribe
Squad
...

22. Tribe
Squad
Tribe
Squad
...
guilds

23. Communities of practice
Tribe
Squad
Tribe
Squad
...

24. Moderators CoP
› To plant the Agile seed
› To serve the whole company
› To grow personal skills

25. technical CoPs

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Organizational model
Communities
of Practice
Thought leadership
Organizational leadership
Peopleleadership
Businessleadership

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DevOps
Identify improvement áreas in existing projects:
› Mature DevOps
› Developing DevOps
› Upcoming DevOps
Participate in International DevOps conferences
Analyze the market Best Practices
Worldwide collaboration with further
Ericsson DevOps initiatives
Dev
Ops
Dev
Ops

28. business Innovation
Engagement with customers & Partners
Ensure business relevance & impact
Promote innovation via e.g. learn & hackathons
Coach innovation teams and bring ideas forward
Engage in co-creation activities within the
garages
…
The garage

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30. PATITO
Post Agile Transformation, Inspiring TEAL Organizations

31. PATITO LEAN, Agile, TEAL
Competence
development
Representing
Actively ICT
Aachen
Representing
Actively ICT
In external forums
Training
Coaching
Eurolab
Training
Coaching
In Ericsson
Internal
Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurship
Master Thesis

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Ict development center Eurolab
Lean Agile Consultancy PORTFOLIO
Drivers regional
Agile community
Agile – Lean - Scrum
Training & Coaching
Speakers Agile - Lean
international conferences
Agile leadership
support and
consultancy

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T-SHAPE

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What do we need?

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Communities of practice!

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1) Everybody welcome

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2) managers welcome!

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3) zero competition

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4) Focus

43. 5) time!

44. 6) Company support

45. 7) contribution

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1. Everybody is welcome
2. Also managers!
3. Zero competition: open to learn and listen
4. Focus and work out concrete ideas
5. Time please!
6. Company support
7. Contribution to the whole enterprise
summary

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› LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/almrodrpardo/
› Xing https://www.xing.com/profile/Almudena_RodriguezPardo/
› Twitter @almudenarpardo
› Email almudena.rodriguez@improvement21.com
Thank you

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› LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/norma-acevedo-lopez/
› Xing https://www.xing.com/profile/Norma_Acevedo/
› Email norma.acevedo@rewe-digital.com
Thank you

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