RIPE

brings the RIght PEople together
for better and faster decisions

We liberate large organizations from meeting-overload, homemade complexity and silos

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Problem to solve

Organizations face the risk of losing both their delivery speed and business agility as they grow. This is typically due to a meeting-overload out of scaling.

Our customers have eliminated their meeting-overload within a few weeks by RIPE.

Solution approach

RIPE is a social structure which replaces your meeting structure and your decision making process by game-changing interaction patterns.

RIPE consists of three building blocks: Core Concepts, Framework and Guidance. The Framework puts the Core Concepts to work and the Guidance describes the RIPE operating model in detail including its implementation.

Core Concepts

Right People Capacity

Every organization has a physical limit for number of meetings which can be conducted during a day to have the right people involved at each of them. We call this number Right People Capacity. RIPE framework regulates the number of meetings conducted to fill this capacity. This stops a Meeting-Overload instantly and for good.

Quality in & Quality out

One of the enemies to Value Flow is lack of Clarity. We jump into producing output based on a number of assumptions due to missing conversations. All the false assumptions add to a Homemade Complexity. With RIPE framework only well prepared topics make it to a meeting and only fully clarified topics leave the RIPE governance.

One Space of Authority

Under RIPE framework, people meet to resolve issues and take decisions at eye level while the only formal Authority is the Host. This kind of Collaboration and decision-making dis-empowers Silos in a sustainable way.

Typical Use Cases

Refinements by RIPE: Bring the right people from across your delivery organization together for an efficient and focused refinement full of energy and fun.

PI-Planning by RIPE: Make your PI-Planning a light weight and short event truly focused on cross-team issues and completely run by passion of your teams.

Project Management by RIPE: Use the full power and the collective knowledge of your project team to move fast and smart. Remember, nobody is smarter than everybody!

Inspect and Adapt by RIPE: Work the system with a proper framework for better and faster organizational development.

System Demo by RIPE: Use the time of your stakeholders wisely and leave the choice of those topics they are willing to explore up to them.

Customer's Voice

This format has replaced conventional meetings and accelerated our decision making process substantially!

SAFe™ Release Train Engineer (RTE) of 14 Agile Teams

We all know statements like “one should…” and “one must…”. Thanks to RIPE we now know who “one” is and when and where they can be spoken to. This approach creates clarity across our entire organization in a very efficient and a goal-oriented way.

Executive management of a scaled product-organization which emerged out of a CHF 112'000'000 program

Our flow is simply beyond impressive and I am very proud to be a part of this organization and what it is achieving!

SAFe™ System Architect

Implementation Roadmap

What follows are the steps of the RIPE implementation roadmap. Note that, with us, you are going to move fast. It takes just a few weeks to implement RIPE.

1st Call

You understand the basic concepts and mechanics behind RIPE, including some of the special hacks
We get to understand your specific context and the challenges you face

Problem-Solution Fit

You assess if RIPE might be the right approach for your specific challenge
In case you are willing to implement RIPE we'll be more than happy to offer you our services

Scope and Stakeholder Analysis

Our common (though short) journey begins!
Let's identify those meetings to be replaced by RIPE
Let's identify all the stakeholders and systems to involve
Let's setup an implementation plan starting with the date of the RIPE Day One (Go Live)

Getting ready

Let's get together with stakeholders and introduce them to RIPE including the playbook
Let's make sure we have agreed upon the key success indicators of your RIPE implementation
Let's work out the details and set the scene for the RIPE Day One

RIPE Day One

You will conduct the first RIPE Day
We will guide you in order to safely navigate through the day

After RIPE Day Review

Let's review the first RIPE Day: Evaluate the key success indicators and identify the room for improvement
Let's find out if you need any additional support from us