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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

Solving shared assets (SW+HW) development with Floating Platform Teams (FPTe)

Designing an organization that develops shared assets (SW+HW) that are used across several business units is problem many managers face. In this post, we highlight some of the main issues, provide new viewpoints on the design challenges, and present a unique solution to this problem.

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Categories
Organizational Design, Transformation, Scaling Agile

Tags
LeSS, Organizational design, Organizational Development

Design an Adaptive Team-based Organization

Matrix organization has well-known problems. Combining Back-Front and Modular organization designs gives you options for creating adaptive organization, productive teamwork, and market focus.

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Categories
Organizational Design, Transformation, Scaling Agile

Tags
LeSS, Organizational design, Organizational Development

Leading creative teams

The consequential goal is an absolutely necessary condition for teamwork: We did something, does it work, is it useful. This creates special expectations towards the leadership in creative work like theatrical performance or visual design.

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Categories
Leadership, Teamwork

Tags
Creative work, Team lead, Theatre director

Others Dream, others Think, others Do

Separating Dreaming, Thinking, and Doing is the deadly sin of large organizations. It will lead to Coordination Chaos: fragmentation, waste, and underperformance.

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Categories
dreaming-thinking-doing, Leadership

Tags
Scaling Agile, Organizational design, organizational culture

Dreaming is essential, Thinking is difficult, Doing is tedious

Dreaming-thinking-doing is the natural process of doing anything, in small and large scale.

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Categories
LeSS - Large-Scale Scrum, Leadership, Conference, dreaming-thinking-doing

Tags
Organizational Development, Development process, Dreaming Thinking Doing

Teamwork and rewarding

We had an intensive Meetup about Teamwork at Flixbus office in Berlin. Here you have the slides and special material about rewarding and intrinsic motivation as discussed.

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Categories
Leadership, LeSS - Large-Scale Scrum, Teamwork

Why not Teamwork

25 people spent 2.5 hours exploring together "Why not teamwork".

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Categories
Teamwork

Tags
Scrum, Teamwork

Path from Bureaucracy to Teamwork

Teamwork is the antidote for bureaucracy. But if you just remove bureaucracy you get chaos. What is missing?

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Categories
Leadership, Teamwork

Tags
Bureaucracy, learning, LeSS

Is remote teamwork fact or fantasy?

We do have remote teams, for good or false reasons. The following explains how the development of group dynamics enables collaboration and performance, even in remote teams.

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Categories
Leadership, Teamwork, Coaching

Simplify Organizations by Creating Teamwork

Our talk at LeSS conference in Prague explains the essential perspectives on building teamwork, and how teamwork helps to reduce bureaucracy. 

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Categories
Teamwork, Leadership

Tags
Teamwork, Conference, LeSS, leadership

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