Why Agile Teams Don’t Make an Adaptive Organization

What does it really take to build an adaptive organization — and why is making individual teams “agile” not enough?

In this LeSS CafeTalk, Bastiaan van Hamersveld talks with Wolfgang Steffens, founder of Kaikaku, about the organizational foundations that are often overlooked in agile transformations.

In this CafeTalk

• Why management support is essential for meaningful organizational change
• The difference between agile teams and an adaptive organization
• Why Scrum exposes problems rather than solving them
• Shu-Ha-Ri and why organizations are tempted to skip the basics
• Using the Org Topology Map and Feature Team Adoption Map to visualize and guide organizational change
• How domain boundaries and management structures create local optimization
• Why feature teams can appear highly productive while the organization remains unable to adapt
• How AI increases the importance of broad, end-to-end product and customer understanding

The core idea

Adaptability isn’t primarily about making teams faster.

It is about designing an organization that can redirect its capabilities toward the most important customer and business problems.

A conversation about LeSS, organizational design, feature teams, management, AI, and the fundamentals of creating truly adaptive organizations.

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