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ELSE: Emergent Large-Scale Evolution

Introducing ELSE

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

• What is ELSE?
• Why ELSE?
• Actionable Principles

ELSE Perspectives and Principles

At the core of ELSE are the Principles. They are giving the "true north", the direction we aim for. Here are the links to them, categorised based on the area they belong to.

But principles often work together, and the perspectives are intended to capture these relationships and provide a narrative to give coherence to the system of Principles.

	Perspective	Principle
General		▶
Leadership	▶	▶
Change	▶
Defining Products	▶	▶
Product Ownership		▶
Teams	▶	▶
Craft		▶
Coaching	▶	▶

This table is a test

	Perspective	Principles
General
Leadership
Change
Defining Products
Product Ownership
Teams
Craft
Coaching

Practices

• One Product Owner may have multiple Teams
• PO should inspect to see if outcomes have been achieved
• Self-forming teams - “bounded autonomy”
• The Leadership Control Surface collects in a compact form the practices that can be used by Leadership at scale
• The Product Owner Control Surface collects in a compact form the practices that are relevant for Product Owners in relationship with the other roles they interface with
• Sources of Patterns and Practices (external resources)

Worked Examples

Real-life examples will be illustrated here.

Tools

During our work we have devised some techniques and workshop formats that will be documented soonish...

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.