Organizing Around Value for Large Solutions Competency

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Business Problem 


The larger the projects and the more systems involved, the slower we are at delivering them, and the more deadlines we miss.

Business Outcomes

  • Increased predictability in delivering the large solution vision and strategy.
  • Improved alignment of ARTs and Solution Trains.
  • Enhanced ability to respond to market changes and customer needs.
  • Optimized flow of value through all development value streams that build the large solution.

Why is the Organizing Around Value for Large Solutions Competency important?

Large solution development often involves hundreds or even thousands of people integrating and delivering complex systems and multiple products. It is driven by a shared vision, backlog, and roadmap. Large solution development is led by roles that manage dependencies across all the components, concentrating on creating alignment in ways that do not compromise the need for autonomy, flow, and innovation.

Organizing around value is a fundamental principle in Lean-Agile development, crucial for optimizing the flow of work and delivering solutions that truly meet customer needs. By doing so, organizations can significantly reduce handoffs and delays, decrease time to market, and minimize employee frustration often associated with traditional functional silos. In addition, effectively organizing around value fosters customer centricity and business outcome focus across all departments. It enables the rapid reorganization of teams and ARTs to respond to emerging opportunities and competitive threats, ensuring business agility.

This competency is not just about structuring the teams within a large solution; it's about understanding why this way of organizing is most suitable for the current strategy being executed. Then, it's about being able to reapply this understanding to rapidly reorganize when necessary to support emerging opportunities and competitive threats.

Which roles would benefit from mastering the Organizing Around Value for Large Solutions Competency?

Solution Management, Solution Train Engineers, Solution Architects, VMO and LACE leaders, Agile transformation leaders, and department leaders within an organization developing large, complex, integrated solutions.