unFIX Visual MS with Product Area Turfs
Visual MS is a Spanish business software development group with 114 employees organizing with different Product Type Turfs and scaling up via bases, leagues, and a crowd.
Exploring the application of unFIX patterns in the structure and dynamics of Visual MS group. Visual MS highlights the importance of psychological safety and the sense of belonging, two fundamental aspects in unFIX, creating a special synergy of the model with the organization.
Hard Agile, Soft Agile, and Not Agile
Labeling every non-pure Agile approach as “waterfall” is not helpful. Big Design Upfront only exists in the first quadrant, which we can indeed label as “Not Agile.”
The Standard Value Stream Concept Is Outdated—Here’s an Improved Definition
A value stream is the set of actions needed to discover or deliver on a job-to-be-done / value proposition from a signal to an experience. A value stream always begins and ends with a user or customer. The goal is to improve the experience by optimizing the whole value stream.
Horizontal Scaling with Turfs
You can scale a small unit to multiple teams without adding a management layer by using the Turf Types patterns: Teams of Teams, Product Areas, Business Units, and Houses. Any of the four Turf Types mentioned in this pattern set may help grow your Base while your Crews remain small.
How to unFIX a University
Can a university be unfixed and to what extent does it make sense at all to regard it as an agile, dynamic organization?
The Multiteaming Way: Organized Anarchy at a Startup Company
Multiteaming is a form of organized anarchy. A whole-team method for everything doesn't work for us. And one person per area also doesn't work. Multiteaming is a practical solution for now.
unFIX at VRT NU/VRT MAX (Case Study)
When working in an agile context, a lot of the unFIX patterns will probably feel very familiar. They make for a flexible toolkit that can be used to describe a wide variety of organization forms.
What Group Types and Sizes Work for You?
Define common group types (depending on context). Understand what drives people in which groups. Figure out which common group sizes work for you.
The unFIX Model
It is time for an alternative to SAFe, LeSS, Holacracy, Management 3.0, the Spotify model, and matrix organizations. We need something that takes flexibility to a new level, and that embraces hybrid working as the new normal. Here is my suggestion. I call it unFIX.