Draw your Base(s) with the unFIX Plotter
Do you remember the time when you wanted to draw your first Value Stream Crew? Do you also remember the feeling when reality kicked in, and you’ve realized that they expect you to copy and paste shapes from bloody PowerPoint slides? Well, I remember too… That was the point when I swore to resolve this once and for all, by coming up with a digital tool which can plot my organization to a canvas. And that is when the unFIX Plotter was born.
Who let the dogs out?
When Jakob Hirn and Olaf Hermann were working together in quite a big “Corporate” company they tried pioneering “agile ways of workings”. But working together with 750 other engineers spread over different countries and using quite some digital tools was quite challenging. After a few years, they concluded that if only their teams were working “agile” it didn't make any sense. So their drive to work in a different way sparked a new adventure: Why not start for ourselves and build something from the ground up?
Organisational Re-Design at Leroy Merlin France (IT Department) with unFIX
Organisational re-design at Leroy Merlin France with unFIX
unFIXing a Swiss insurance company
The Swiss Re Group is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients.
How to unFIX a University
Can a university be unfixed and to what extent does it make sense at all to regard it as an agile, dynamic organization?
Worldline’s unFIX Journey
Worldline is the leading payments company in Europe and they are also pioneering the way they work!
Don't implement frameworks; try some patterns.
Patterns, recipes, and practices are descriptions of observable forms or outcomes. They are not something to be implemented.
unFIX at VRT NU/VRT MAX (Case Study)
When working in an agile context, a lot of the unFIX patterns will probably feel very familiar. They make for a flexible toolkit that can be used to describe a wide variety of organization forms.
BBVA Next Technologies Unfixed (Case Study of a FinTech Unit)
I evaluated the current organizational structure of BBVA Next Technologies and what I found was organized chaos. And I mean that in the best possible way! 😁
We All Have Portfolios; Everyone Is a Strategist.
The complex systems approach is that vision, strategy, tactics, and execution exist at each level of the organization. The only things that change are the scope of the options and how we want to handle the division of labor.
Coolblue Unfixed (Case Study of a Scale-up)
How does a fast-growing scale-up organize its teams, management, and business units? What does it mean to have agility embedded in company culture? How can you make everything an experiment? Check out the Coolblue case study and learn what you can do to become the next two-billion euro scale-up.
Balance High Cohesion with Low Coupling
If you make sure that no role and no team can get away with ignoring the needs of their local environments, you end up with a fully optimized organization, where nobody sees the whole picture.
How Do We Keep the Business Agile and Aligned?
We need purpose-driven units that can align themselves horizontally. The only reason to have management layers is when managers see themselves as caretakers of purpose-driven (sub)systems.
What Group Types and Sizes Work for You?
Define common group types (depending on context). Understand what drives people in which groups. Figure out which common group sizes work for you.
Pipedrive Unfixed (Case Study of a Unicorn Company)
Fast-growing scale-ups don't use SAFe or LeSS because such agile frameworks are not agile enough. You don't become a unicorn company in 500 sprints.
The Ministry Group as a Versatile Organization (unFIX Case Study)
This article presents a case study of the Ministry Group in Hamburg, Germany, described in the language of unFIX.
Let’s Unfix Holacracy
You don’t create a happy culture by rolling in the consultants, toppling the autocratic managers, installing a democratic system, and pulling out. I’m not touching a tool that’s so fundamentally flawed.
Let’s Unfix the Spotify Model
The Spotify model was described as a snapshot of what Spotify was doing ten years ago. It’s time to upgrade!
Let’s Unfix Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
As a framework, LeSS offers part organization design and part process flow. It seems to me that LeSS and unFIX are pretty complementary.
Let’s Unfix the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
It is worth investigating how SAFe compares to unFIX. The question keeps coming up, so let's tackle it. What are the differences?