Org Design & Structure
“Bring the work to the team, don’t pull the people to the work.”
Overview
Stable Teams are formed to exist for the long term, over different initiatives and projects. Keeping teams stable allows teams to improve over time and become high-performing. Stable Teams result in more productivity, predictability and responsiveness.
A Stable Team is a cross-functional group of Individuals that have all the skills and tools they need to design, develop, test and release customer value to production. They remain together intact for the long term; existing for different projects/deliverables and aligned with other teams to deliver end-to-end customer value. The team co-locates physically or collaborates virtually and works together daily practicing Agile.
The Stable Teams pillar includes Team Design and Rollout, Stability and Allocation, Manager Transition and Communities of Practice and Enabling Teams.
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Problems We Are Solving
- Slow time to market, it takes too long to deliver
- Lack of focus, conflicting priorities, and people multi-tasking across several projects
- Silos, hand-offs and lots of cross-team dependencies
- Specialized roles and “not my job” mindsets
- Lack of predictability for planning and unrealistic estimates for when work will get done
Desired Outcomes
- The organization brings the work to the teams and can effectively plan to capacity as business priorities and strategies change over time, measured by predictable velocity, predictable delivery, and value delivered
- Team design provides the right balance between strategic and operational/support work, measured by time to market and value delivered
Competencies
This pillar focuses on the below competencies. The Learn More links take customers and certified EBA Strategists to resources inside our measurement and growth platform, AgilityHealth. Use your AgilityHealth login to access.
Team & Org. Structure
Team Design and Rollout is the process of forming Agile Teams and aligning those teams to the business value driven work that needs to be completed. This includes determining which types of teams need to be formed, what value streams they could align to, what type of work those teams will be doing, and what roles to fill on the teams. Learn More
Role Agility
Stable Teams are long-lasting teams that are different from project teams that are assembled and disbanded as projects are launched and closed out. These teams have dedicated team members and a clear and consistent focus for their work. Work is allocated to these teams according to their capacity, which becomes predictable over time. Learn More
Enablement Teams
To support and lead Stable Teams, managers must make the shift from a traditional environment of managing for results to creating environments for success. Learn More
Related Radar Assessments
Enterprise Business Agility Radar
The EBA Radar provides a holistic assessment for a portfolio or line of business around the 7 pillars needed to succeed.
TeamHealth Radar
Our most popular & powerful benchmark for measuring the health of Agile teams.
Related Workshops & Jump Starts
Team & Org Design for Agility
This workshop covers Agile Team Design principles and patterns that have delivered proven results across industries and functions. It also incorporates interactive, applied exercises to bring these practices to life and allow participants to explore potential applications within their organization.
Facilitated Team Design Optimization
‘Roll up your sleeves’ and optimize your team structures with this facilitated workshop and coaching jump start. This engagement provides a refresher of team design for agility best practices, but is primarily focused on refining and optimizing your actual team structures.
Insights Dashboard – Maturing Structural Agility
This workshop focuses on maturing the current structural agility of the teams & leveraging AgilityHealth® to visualize, measure & inform decision making.
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