New words pop up all the time, sometimes to describe a new phenomenon, or to capture the essence of a previously poorly investigated area. One such word is technical debt, first used by Ward Cunningham to show the later cost involved in delivering a quick solution now.
Category: Agile organization
Agile organization or agile network organization is Parmaturs concept to increase the efficiency of the strategy and development. Strategy refers to the company’s overall strategy. Development related to product development, market development and production technology development.
Three Books on Agile Management
Finally all three books that I planned in my series on agile management are published. With these books I want to state my view on agility and assist the reader in implementing agile governance.
Pulse Room and Obeya
What is a pulse room and why is it such a central part of Parmatur Pulse?
Distributed Development
Pulse in a company with one R&D location will have one pulse room. But what to do when there are many locations around the world where development is done? Unlike a hierarchical line organization, Parmatur Pulse is an organizational model that can easily handle distributed development and “multi-site” situations.
Agile Governance
For a business to be agile, it isn’t enough to have agile projects. You also need agile governance that can speed up decision making, deal with overload, queues and deviations, and enable you to work continuously on your strategies.
Organizational Adaptability
Product development as an adaptive walk is a new way to organizational adaptability. Predictions far into the future are highly uncertain. Parmatur Pulse supports short lead times and thereby establishes an agile business model.
Agile Network Organization
The best way to create cross-functional work is with the help of a fractal, scale-free network. This kind of an organization is fast and agile, an agile network organization.
What is an Agile Organisation?
What is an agile organisation? In Parmatur Pulse, an agile organisation is based on daily stand-up meetings, visual management and planned demonstrations that give feedback. Pulse encompasses the whole organization.
Agile Decision Making
The agile decision making structure is the foundation of an agile network organization. The organization is visualized through the network of Pulse meetings in the Pulse room.
ISO 9001:2015 and Pulse
Companies with ISO 9001 certification have until September 2018 to adapt their management systems to the latest version, ISO 9001:2015. In this article I’ll briefly review how the Pulseguide and Agile Pulse can function as a simple solution to meeting the new standard.