Fully Segregated Base
Base Type
A Fully Segregated Base offers multiple independent and potentially competing products or services.
Base Types: Fully Integrated Base • Strongly Aligned Base • Loosely Aligned Base • Fully Segregated Base
Purpose
There are Bases that consist of several products offered to different customers without any integration or connectivity between them. An example would be an incubator with a portfolio of startups (one per Value Stream Crew) where customers typically use just one product and are possibly not even aware of the other options.
The Fully Segregated Base is one of the four kinds of Bases in versatile organization design.
In a Fully Segregated Base, you need no coordination between the Value Stream Crews, and the multiple products could even be each other's competitors. The value streams don't operate with the same cadence (for iterations and increments), and an Experience Crew won't be necessary.
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.
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