Agility & Self-Organisation The Computest Story @sigikaltenecker www.loop-beratung.at
Agility & Self-OrganisationThe Computest Story
@sigikaltenecker www.loop-beratung.at
Siegfried “Sigi” Kaltenecker
Managing Director Loop GmbH
“Organisation Whisperer”
Agile Designer
Sparring Partner for Managers
Author
https://www.infoq.com/articles/computest-transformation-agile-enterprise
@sigikaltenecker
www.LEANability.com
• 120 people• Den Haag Area (NL)• Performance Testing, Security Testing, Test Automation• Ambitious Mission: “Towards a Self-Managing
Organization” (CEO Hartger Ruijs)
Computest
Key strengths 2016-20171. Knowledge, expertise & hands-on mentality2. “Magic triangle”: happy employees, happy
customers, profitable company3. Willingness to learn4. Success stories5. Open company culture: respectful behaviour and
supportive environment
www.LEANability.com
Key challenges 2016-2017
1. Handle future growth2. Become even more market and customer focused3. Develop an agile enterprise driven by self-organization4. Speed up innovation and shorten time-to-market5. Preserve company culture
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Focus on work flow & value stream
Design for happy customers & employees
www.LEANability.com
“Activities only make sense if they eventually contribute to value generation for the customer. Thinking in value streams gives everybody a much better understanding of their role than a static orgchart which typically does not even show the customer.” Clemens Riedl
“Stop being a company with its face towards the CEO and ass towards the customer” Jack Welch
“Leadership is here to facilitate, to serve value generation for customers. It is not relevant who provides leadership, but that it IS there when necessary.” Clemens Riedl
www.LEANability.com
January 2017
KalteneckerHow to promote service rather than position?
@sigikaltenecker
1. Business agility
Lessons learned
3. Changing your management system
2. Self-organization
Improving your organization design in an agile way means to better organize the value creation process for your customer.
Setting clear boundaries in terms of infrastructure, information, and decision-making authority or feedback loops.
is driven by value.
needs guidance.
Owners and executives must model the change they want to see in place.
has to start on top.
@sigikaltenecker
The Computest Story
@sigikaltenecker www.loop-beratung.at
https://www.infoq.com/articles/computest-transformation-agile-enterprise
Thank you!
Siegfried Kaltenecker
Selforganising Enterprises
Management & Coaching in the Agile World