Fully Integrated Base

Base Type

A Fully Integrated Base offers a large product or service which is deployed and offered as a single solution.

Purpose

Some Bases consist of multiple value streams that form one integrated whole together. An example would be a product that you have divided into various feature sets (one per Value Stream Crew) where you build and deploy the entire product as one solution.

The Fully Integrated Base is one of the four kinds of Bases in versatile organization design.

In a Fully Integrated Base, you need significant coordination between the Value Stream Crews. They might have to operate with the same cadence (for iterations and increments) and have multiple Facilitation Crews (agile coaches, product managers, technical leads) to help the Crews with dependencies and with the optimization and deployment of the complete solution.

Notes

The four types of Bases are inspired by the distinction as offered in the book Networked, Scaled, and Agile: A Design Strategy for Complex Organizations by Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, and Michele DiMartino.

Rules / Constraints

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Example of a Fully Integrated Base

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

(Source: Maya Angelou)