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Ari Tikka

Ari Tikka
Founding Partner

Before finding Agile, Ari built software for embedded distributed fault tolerant software for seven years. For the next decade he worked as an organizational therapist with cultural change, teamwork and leadership. Since 2006 he has contributed to LeSS-flavoured Agile transformations including mechanical engineering, market automation, and embedded system development. For the last couple of years Ari had international coaching assignments ranging from teams to board.

Authors
Ari Tikka, Wolfgang Steffens, Ran Nyman

Trust, Care, and Love

Build the culture of Trust, Care, and Love for the shared mental and physical space.

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Categories
Leadership, Teamwork Wisdom

Tags
Team development, Tacit knowledge, Continuous improvement, Trust Care Love, group dynamics

Forget Katzenbach's Team Performance Curve

Time to retire this dangerously misleading picture! It incorrectly presents teamwork as an optional luxury, hopefully achieved after a slump in performance.

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Categories
Teamwork Wisdom, Leadership, Coaching

Forming, Storming, Dreaming, Performing

Tuckman's orming is an interesting theory but not useful for practical coaching. Knowing how and why things really happen gives tools for concrete interventions.

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Categories
Teamwork Wisdom, Leadership, dreaming-thinking-doing

Tags
Tuckman, Team development, Forming Storming Dreaming Performing

Solving shared assets (SW+HW) development with Floating Platform Teams (FPTe)

Designing an organization that develops shared assets (SW+HW) that are used across several business units is problem many managers face. In this post, we highlight some of the main issues, provide new viewpoints on the design challenges, and present a unique solution to this problem.

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Categories
Organizational Design, Leading change, Scaling Agile

Tags
LeSS, Organizational design, Organizational Development

Design an Adaptive Team-based Organization

Matrix organization has well-known problems. Combining Back-Front and Modular organization designs gives you options for creating adaptive organization, productive teamwork, and market focus.

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Categories
Organizational Design, Leading change, Scaling Agile

Tags
LeSS, Organizational design, Organizational Development

Leading creative teams

The consequential goal is an absolutely necessary condition for teamwork: We did something, does it work, is it useful. This creates special expectations towards the leadership in creative work like theatrical performance or visual design.

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Categories
Leadership, Teamwork Wisdom

Tags
Creative work, Team lead, Theatre director

Others Dream, others Think, others Do

Separating Dreaming, Thinking, and Doing is the deadly sin of large organizations. It will lead to Coordination Chaos: fragmentation, waste, and underperformance.

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Categories
dreaming-thinking-doing, Leadership

Tags
Scaling Agile, Organizational design, organizational culture

Dreaming is essential, Thinking is difficult, Doing is tedious

Dreaming-thinking-doing is the natural process of doing anything, in small and large scale.

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Categories
LeSS - Large-Scale Scrum, Leadership, dreaming-thinking-doing

Tags
Organizational Development, Development process, Dreaming Thinking Doing

Teamwork and rewarding

We had an intensive Meetup about Teamwork at Flixbus office in Berlin. Here you have the slides and special material about rewarding and intrinsic motivation as discussed.

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Categories
Leadership, LeSS - Large-Scale Scrum, Teamwork Wisdom

Why not Teamwork

25 people spent 2.5 hours exploring together "Why not teamwork".

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Categories
Teamwork Wisdom

Tags
Scrum, Teamwork

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