The right organizational structure changes with the strategic goals of the company. Many companies that are moving towards more agility and better value creation (lean), are finding it beneficial to organize themselves around value streams. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) authored by Dean Leffingwell et. al. shows guidance on how to find value streams and organize your product development or IT services around these. What are the different roles participating on value streams? How do they interact with the customer and with other internal teams? The Meddlers Game shown here is a great tool to play organizational situations out - starting with the strategic or customer need - and developing an organizational set-up that serves our wanted outcome best.
The Meddlers Game is part of the Management 3.0 Games developed by Jurgen Appelo, played by organizations around the world and offered on Management 3.0 training courses by trainers like Andrea (Lean Advantage) and Ryan (EPAM) globally.
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Growing Organizational Structure - Better Management Meetup London 2014 March
1. PLAYFUL LEARNING ABOUT
MODERN AGILE MANAGEMENT
Andrea Darabos
Lean Agile Coach, Trainer
LEAN ADVANTAGE Ltd.
Andrea@leanadvantage.co.uk
Ryan Behrman
Agile and Lean Coach, Trainer
TOUCH THINK Ltd.
Ryan@touchthink.com
2. by Jurgen Appelo
A course, a book, and an approach to inspire team
members, team leaders, managers to create more
engaged, productive work environments for
knowledge workers.
Andrea and Ryan are Management 3.0 facilitators and trainers. They
facilitate management 3.0 games as a free âtasterâ session for their
full-day training events.
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3. Todayâs Topics
⢠Team diversity
Why does diversity matter?
⢠Team structures
Meddlers game
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4. Diversity: Whoâs here?
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1. Team Leader
2. Development Manager
3. VP / Director / CxO
4. Project Manager/Scrum Master
5. Product Owner/ Product Manager
6. Software Developer / Tester
7. Coach / Consultant
8. âŚ
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5. Team Breakout â Diversity and Skills
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⢠Does your team have the skills to produce a
software product?
⢠What skills are missing?
⢠How would you go about improving your diversity?
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6. Growing Flexible Structure
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Meddlers Game
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7. Growing Flexible Structure
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Meddlers Game
3 Situations
10 mins each
Solve in your team
Share Solutions with Large Group
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8. 10 mins Situations:
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Meddlers Game
1. Grow a business unit which consist of 12 people,
works on one project and one customer.
2. Now grow your unit to 18 people, working for 2
customers, one big project each.
3. Now your unit will do 5 small projects at the same
time for 3 customers, with the same number of people.
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9. TODAYâS HIGHLIGHTS
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The Meddlers Game is on the Mgmt 30 website
or email us your experiences!
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11. Next Topics
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⢠Motivating myself and my team <GAME>
⢠What intrinsic factors motivate me?
⢠How can I get to know what motivates my team members?
⢠How can I change their work environment in order to motivate & engage
them better?
⢠Decision making, delegation, self-organization <GAME>
⢠As a team leader, how much should I delegate in a given situation?
⢠Leading change <GAME>
⢠Best practices, stories of change agents inside organizations
⢠Suggest Your Topic of Interest (and GAME):
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Now I bet some people may have shifted over time between one role and another, for example in the past I was a software developer, a project manager, and now Iâm a coach and trainer. You may have shifted roles too. Imagine you still have the skills you had in the past (because you could probably get them back if you wanted to) so in my case yes if I really put my mind to it I could still do web development work (and in fact I still do bits and pieces here and there) as well as being a Scrum Master...
Now imagine each table is a team and youâre creating a software product (any product) as a team. With the people in your team, do you have the right mix of skills to create a software product? Taking into account all your accumulated skills over the years.
Missing skills:
Value units
System administrators
GUI designers
Project Mgt Office
Community of Practice
Center of Excellence
Human Resources
...
Delivering value to others
(Concepts: start small and add..)