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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.

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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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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Effective Teamwork at NYC LeSS Meetup

What keeps us amazed about teamwork is, that while there are some magnificent teams, so many are not even adequate. This is observable especially in large organizations. How could we get the fundamentals correct so that the majority of people would perform at their potential?

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Cure for Coordination Chaos

Is your organization's productivity declining? You are probably experiencing Coordination Chaos, caused by fragmentation and bureaucracy. How to cure it?

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Effective Teamwork in Practice

Teamwork, great collaboration and performance, is rare. Don't waste your effort in random team building before understanding the internal and external fundamentals.

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Actionable Fearless Leadership

Our research in Agile Leadership has been maturing from conference presentations to robust workshops, where participants experience the logic behind Scaling Agility.

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LeSS Meetup Helsinki December 2016

From hiding behind "Best practises" to complete mastery of "How LeSS differs from Scrum"

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