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.
Just like at Easter Islands, Tayloristic organizations grow more and more complicated until they collapse. This combined with the atmosphere of fear is what brought NOKIA Mobile Phones to it's knees 2011.
LeSS, unlike most Agile scaling frameworks, addresses the fundamental systemic flaws of traditional organizations.
Standing room only for Ari's talk about understanding LeSS and SAFe, based on organizational (anti)patterns.
Gosei was chairing the Agile Project management track. The audience was both laughing with tears in the eyes and squirming in discomfort when Ari explained how organizations screw it up.
Miksi liiketoiminnan ja IT:n on vaikea tehdä yhteistyötä? Tässä juurisyy.
No resistance - no change. Use yourself as an instrument to recognise resistance.
By studying specific scaling frameworks we have found generic patterns and adoption path for scaling.