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Ari Tikka

Ari Tikka
Founding Partner

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.

Authors
Ari Tikka, Ran Nyman, Wolfgang Steffens

Constructor training program for Program Managers

148 program managers participated to this training program, sponsored by the leadership team of Nokia Networks. There were 13 groups with 12-10 participants during 2002-2006. Average feedback was 4.5 / 5.

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Categories
Cases, Training Program

Cultural Change in 1000 people Switching Platform

This report describes a large successful case of a goal oriented managed change, based on empowerment and reflection. The organizational culture and emergent nature of the change were respected by a continuously adaptive approach.

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Categories
Cases, Training Program

Tags
empowerment, evolution, Kaizen, leadership, learning and change, organizational culture, retrospectives, training program

Three Interests causing alienation and a leadership vacuum

The three natural stakeholders have common and conflicting interests. This creates three different subcultures, causing a leadership vacuum in the middle, where product decisions need to be made.

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Categories
Leading change

Tags
product management, conflict, alienation

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