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Ilia Pavlichenkoleads Agile Transformations in companies around the world. He is an organization design consultant with rigorous focus on coaching senior management. Regularly speaks at international Agile / Scrum conferences. Ilia is also a Certified LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) trainer, Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) from Scrum.org. In the past he was a programmer, project manager, Scrum Master and an Agile Coach at multiple product organizations. Ilia is a candidate for the Master of Sports in table tennis and streetlifting, fan of Queen and Brian May.
You can contact Ilia at fancydev@gmail.com
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Ilia Pavlichenko
The work of solving a complex problem (for example, a feature) with interdependent tasks rarely distributes evenly among the people in a cross-functional team. The solution is a team of multi-skilled specialists. A team of multi-talented people experience fewer bottlenecks as they can help overloaded team members, and therefore reduce the time to solve a complex problem end-to-end. The team develops multi-skilled members by working in three preferred modes: pairing, mob-programming, and swarming continuously. Some other techniques are: StarMap, visualizing the flow of work, and Slack Time.
May 31, 2022
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Working from a single product backlog creates an inevitable knowledge gap in single-skilled team members. Over time, team members develop secondary or even tertiary skills and become multi-skilled specialists. On an organizational level introduce cross-functional managers that focus on the whole team development. Also you need to create a system of human operations that supports multi-skilled specialists.
May 23, 2022
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Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko.
May 10, 2022
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Many problems at the workplace are not the fault of the individual managers or teams. They are often the result of working in an organizational design(OD) that impedes rather than supports Agility. The OD determines, to a large extent, how people cooperate, the prevailing mental models, and how work gets done. To change all of this takes time and requires people to unlearn old lessons and relearn new ones that support Agility.
Apr 24, 2022
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What I usually hear is “Scrum is great, but it doesn’t work in my organization, because...” and then follows a list of excuses why change is impossible or hard.
Aug 9, 2020
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In this article, we shall investigate why the learning and development of multi-functional specialists in Scrum is the core of organizational Agility and value optimization. Many Development Teams are not collaborating as real teams, but as a collection of narrow specialists focused on "their" tasks (QA, Backend, iOS, Android).
Mar 10, 2020
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Product Backlog Refinement (PBR) is an ongoing process in Scrum. But in a scaled Scrum, complexity vastly increases, and Refinement becomes mandatory. In this article, I will explain how you can use Refinement to your advantage and enhance organizational agility.
Feb 3, 2020
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This is quite a long read which you can download as the whitepaper "Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching".
Jan 27, 2020
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When Scrum Teams discuss too many problems during the Retrospective they may lose focus.
Jan 11, 2020
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How to start an Agile transformation? What are the initial steps? In this article I explain how transformations could be planned using Scrum Patterns and systems thinking.
Jan 4, 2020
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