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ELSE: Emergent Large-Scale Evolution

An Introduction to ELSE

A continuous improvement approach that fosters emergent practices, guided by actionable principles, to enhance agility at scale.

• What is ELSE?
• Why ELSE?
• Where does it come from?
• Actionable Principles

The Perspectives

• Change - The Change Perspective
• Leadership - The Leadership Perspective
• Products - The Product Perspective
• Teams - The Teams' Perspective
• Coaching - The Coaching Perspective

The Principles

• General
• Teams
• Craft
• Leadership
• Product Ownership
• Defining Products

Practices

• Sources of Patterns and Practices
• One Product Owner may have multiple Teams
• PO should inspect to see if outcomes have been achieved
• Self-forming teams - “bounded autonomy”

Tools

VSM

Stakeholder Mapping - complex example from TfL

Team Structure

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References

Here is a comprehensive set of references.

Glossary

Here is glossary defining the most important terms and concepts.

Authors

The following people are currently involved actively in this initiative: Colin Bird, Jan B. Olsen, Pierluigi Pugliese, Matt Roadnight and Simon Roberts.