There are many books and posts about agile teams. Doing Scrum or Kanban is a state-of-the-art in software development. But, how does it scale in big organizations? How can agile methods cross department boarders?
I’ve found some answers on the web. In upcoming blogs I’ll go into more details.
Here’s my list of the methods with links to further reading:
- Adaptive Leadership
http://jimhighsmith.com/2012/03/28/making-self-organization-work/ - Agile Management & Kanban
by David Anderson http://www.agilemanagement.net/ - CALMalpha
http://availagility.co.uk/tag/calmalpha/ - Collaborative / Agile leadership
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_leadership - Constraint Management
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Constraints - Fractal organization
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10698938-the-fractal-organization - Holacracy (commercial TM)
http://www.holacracy.org/ - Learning Organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_organization - Management 3.0
by Jürgen Appelo http://www.management30.com/ - Radical Management
http://www.stevedenning.com/Books/radical-management.aspx - Rightshifting / Marshall Model
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=990707&trk=anet_ug_hm - Self-Management
http://self-managementinstitute.org - Scrum
http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com - Situational Leadership
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_leadership_theory - Synergistic Organization (commercial TM)
http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/mbs_mini_inex.html - Systems Thinking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking - Theory U
http://gerhard.hacker.at/transalp%202005/Theory%20U.pdf
Please give me some feedback, if I missed some relevant approaches.
Mirko Blüming
- Systems Thinking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking
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You missed Rightshifting, I believe. 😦
Thanks for your comment – I’ve added a link to Rightshifting.
Very cool list, thanks Mirko! I work with HolacracyOne, we develop Holacracy. I’m actually curious to look at some other models you mention here. With Holacracy, we use what I think is a useful distinction for comparing different organizational models: there is
1) the organizational “operating system”, which is the fundamental way authority, power and accountabilities are distributed throughout the organization (Holacracy falls into that category), and there are
2) “apps” that can installed on that organizational OS, like Scrum or Lean Startup for example, which are focused on a specific aspect of the business.
Good luck with this work! And you’re welcome to poke me if you have questions about Holacracy.
Thanks, Oliver. I’ll come back to you. Please also have a look at http://self-managementinstitute.org/ I’ve added recently.
Mirko
Yes Morning Star’s experience is a great contribution, if only from their experience using their self-management system in such a big company. If you’re interested, here is an article on the MIX where I have posted a response to address some of the limits I see with their model: http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/when-nobody-and-everybody-boss
OOP 2013 has a new track of “Reinventing Management” http://www.sigs-datacom.de/oop2013/aktuelles/call-for-papers-oop-2013.html
Also consider Loosly Coupled Processes: http://www.johnseelybrown.com/paper_orchestratingcollaboration.pdf