From developers to CEO
ScrumImpulz, 31.5.2018
Kentico
From developers to CEO
Kentico Software is a Czech software company from Brno,
founded in 2004.
100
1,000
7,000
25,000
countries
partners
customers
websites
4
5
250+
continents
subsidiaries
employees
NOT transforming teams
2010
So Agile? Not for us…
Transforming teams
2012
So Agile, I’ll take one!
Transforming departments
2014
Transforming the product
2016
Cloud-first Headless CMS
Kentico Cloud
https://kenticocloud.com/knowledge-base/headless-cms
Transforming the management team
2017
Team NO. 1!
What management should care about
1. Set goals
2. Clarify priorities
3. Ensure alignment
4. Facilitate execution
5. Evaluate continualy
Set goals
Why goals are so important:
• Sets the target
• Clarify what exactly we are shooting for
• Helps to find out if you are on board
• Enables people to commit
Ideal scene
Ideal scene on June 30, 2018
Ideal scene
Onboarded partnerCustomers love KCSales goal Competitive
advantage Value proposition
Clarify priorities
Why priorities are so important:
• Make priorities clear across the company
• To address stuff with the greatest impact on business
• Prevent suboptimal solutions
• Invest money wisely
One funnel
One Funnel
One funnel
Ensure alignment
Why alignment is so important:
• Utilize combined forces
• Facilitates the flow of activities
• Avoid grey zones
• Speed-up delivery
• Prevent disputes
Themes
Themes
Facilitate execution
Why execution is so important:
• Execution phase often fails
• Value is created right here
• We learn the most here
• Limit work in progress and complexity
• We can do what we love
Key principles
Key principles of execution
• Choose the right people
• Focus on the outcomes
• Allow autonomy and accountability
• Iterative way of working
• Minimize size of the team
Evaluate continually
Why evaluation is so important:
• Ensures constant improvements
• Provide feedback for personal growth
• Steer team towards the goal
Retrospectives
The never-ending story!
Evolution
Why it is so important to make transformation endless:
• Market evolves
• Competitors are not sleeping and new ones are coming
• Innovation is a product of modern companies
• Customer standards are changing
• Successful companies are growing
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