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Example: Medium-size Organization

This example of a medium-sized organization shows the teams and the Value Stream (aka Workflow) visualized by arrows. The arrows in front of the teams indicate the planning, analysis, refinement and prioritization activities that take place before the teams start to work on work packages. The arrows from the teams’ results to other teams indicate…

Frequent asked questions

What is P4-Dev? Why should I use P4-Dev? How does P4-Dev differ from other scaling agile frameworks? How to start? How can we implement P4? What are preconditions for a successful change? Why P4-Dev? A comparison of Agile vs Classical vs Pragmatic Product Development Different term between Scrum and P4 Organizational design: Team Flavors of P4:…

Comparing Agile, Classical and Pragmatic Product Development

The agile movement is often criticized for being too dogmatic in its principles. Many of these principles cannot be upheld in the context of several teams and within large organizations. This has often been demonstrated in the past during practical implementation, which is one of the main criticisms of “agile purists” of agile scaling frameworks…

News

2024-01-20: Attributes of sucessful teams is based on the insights of “Five dysfunctions of teams” written by Patric Lecioni. I shows the fundamentals needed for effective changes. 2023-12-10: A playful way to discuss, negotiate and agree about the collaboration between two teams: Team Collaboration Poker. 2023-06-04: Personal Scrum for a single person 2021-12-23: By adding…

Persona

Topics to consider: Name, Portrait, Responsibilities, Personal Environment Personality, Skills Values, Attitudes, Preferences, Behaviors Needs, Motivation, Goals, Interests Challenges, Frustrations Why should I use the product/service? Why should I buy the product/service? Demographics

Product Vision / Business Case

The product vision describes in compact form … for which users, in which markets the product is intended, which are the basic requirements and standards what are the main functions of the product how the product fits into the application context and what interfaces it has with surrounding systems. There are different types of templates…

Scrum and P4 terms

P4 uses all elements of Scrum on the Team level and supplements them with additional elements. The Scrum terms were partially adapted in P4 in order to ensure a uniform structure of the terms with the additional levels (Cluster and Organization). The following table gives an overview of the adapted terms and explains why they…

Standing on the shoulders of Giants

Taiichi Ohno: Toyota Production System (TPS), Lean Production, Just-in-time (JIT) & the Toyota Product Development System (TPDS) Eliyahu M. Goldratt: Theory of Constraints (ToC), Critical Chain & bottleneck theory: Goldratt has shown, that all processes that have “dependent events” and “statistical fluctuations” in their flow, will always have a bottleneck. He showed us how to…

Overlapping Principle

The overlap principle ensures that information is effectively exchanged between the team, groups and Clusters. This is illustrated here using the example of the Product Owner: Every Team has a Team-Product-Owner, who represents his/her Team within the Team-Product-Owner-Gruppe (TPOG) of the Cluster. Each TPOG has a Cluster-Product-Owner, who represents his/her Cluster within the Cluster-Product-Owner-Group (CPOG) of…