Creating Agile Organizations: A Systemic Approach

by Cesario Ramos, Ilia Pavlichenko

This guide will help Scrum Masters, trainers, and leaders to facilitate, coach, and teach Scrum across entire organizations, not just individual teams. Internationally renowned Scrum/Agile coaches Cesario Ramos and Ilia Pavhlichenko focus on the specific challenges that Scrum Masters encounter when adopting Scrum at the enterprise level, when working on organizational design with large products, and multiple teams across many departments and locations. They draw on years of experience scaling Scrum at widely diverse companies worldwide, offering techniques you can use with any technologies, in any environment.

After concisely reviewing relevant Professional Scrum Master principles, history, and techniques, Ramos and Pavhlichenko present concrete tools for successfully extending Scrum throughout virtually any large organization. You will find specific solutions for real-world challenges such as preparing and facilitating large scale Scrum meetings, practicing your personal skills more effectively, and asking better questions about organization-wide challenges. You will also find proven tools for large scale Scrum adoption, including a Product Definition Guide to help define the product in a Scrum adoption, and a Feature Heat Map to help define team structure and redesign entire organizations.

Genres: Leadership

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2022

Reviews

[Andrei Gavrila · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great, great book.

I think this book should be part of the library of all Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and leaders in general.

To me, it had as much impact as Coaching Agile Teams from Lyssa Adkins.

Some of the things I highly appreciated:
1. The idea of agility and how it relates to business goals (Chapter 1)
2. The chapter dedicated to systems thinking that includes both an introduction to systems thinking but also examples easy to relate to
3. A view of their approach to transformation that is easy to understand (preparation, launching, continuous support)
4. Great ideas on coaching teams and product owners. Chapter 10 was my favorite; it was hard to pick a favorite

Great book!

[Anton Van Puyenbroeck · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much theory, so many practices, plenty of real cases.... Amazing book. Only downside: I need to read 5 other books now, referenced an partially explained here but I always prefer to go to the source.