RIPE
brings the RIght PEople together
for faster and better decisions
Our customers run scaled delivery organizations such as a SAFe™ Agile Release Train, big programme or any kind of delivery organization where many teams need to collaborate.
They face a particularly hard challenge: Identifying those topics which need cross-team attention and addressing them with the right people. Fast.
This is how not to solve this problem:
Regular Meetings - one of the most boring places to be: Most of the time you couldn't care less about what's being discussed. In response, you try to avoid such meetings or spend time in the meeting doing something else.
Ad-hoc Meetings: It is a pain in the ass to organize an ad-hoc meeting because people you need are busy. In response you instead move on without engaging them which puts the joint delivery at risk.
The perfect Team Topology: No team topology in the world will save you from cross-team dependencies and sooner or later from (new but still) silos. Reorganizing your organization in search for the perfect teams-cut over and over again is the perfect recipe to frustration and poor performance.
Our customers recognize that they need to apply a new thinking to solve the biggest problem of scaling for good. They purposely discontinue the old paradigm of a freedom for everyone to invite anyone to anything anytime!
Our solution - RIPE - is a complete and ready-to-use format which has been designed for scaled delivery organizations of any size, any team topology and any framework in use.
RIPE replaces your conventional meeting structure by a completely new and truly agile interaction based on the open space social technology powered with additional hacks. It literally cleans up the space in your agenda occupied by regular and ad-hoc meetings for good.
RIPE gives you the key to the scaling dilemma: How to scale your organization without having the additional capacity eaten up by fire-fighting of cross-team issues and by tedious alignment?
RIPE Framework consists of four core steps and four roles. The respective playbook including additional guidelines is published inside the RIPE Universe - the place where RIPE Guides share their knowledge and jointly improve the framework.
The typical use cases of a RIPE implementation:
Refinements: Bring the right people from across your delivery organization together for an efficient and focused refinement full of energy and fun.
PI-Planning: Make your PI-Planning a light weight short event truly focused on cross-team issues and completely run by passion of your teams.
Project Management: 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: Work the system with a proper framework for better and faster organizational development.
Review or System Demo: Use the time of your stakeholders wisely and leave the choice of those review topics they are willing to explore up to them.
« 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
What follows is a 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
This is our RIPE Guides ready and authorized to help:
