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    Formule X – Accelerate your organisation

    Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 29-08-2019
    Category: Podcast Tags: Agile Scrum Innovation Organizing Speed Acceleration

    In this episode of the podcast, we talk about accelerating organisations. We invited Jurriaan Kamer and Rini van Solingen to our studio. They recently launched their book – Formule X – Hoe zorg je voor extreme versnelling in je organisatie – at bol.com.  The English version, How to reach extreme acceleration in your organization, will be available before the holiday season. The subject of the book how to accelerate your organization is closely related to many subjects we talked about in our podcast series. For instance Agile at Scale and Speeding…

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    Formule X – Accelerate your organisation

    Agile at Scale – Reality is complex, don’t expect simple solutions

    Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 24-07-2019
    Category: Podcast Tags: Web scale Scalability Agile Scrum Podcast Product teams Agile@scale Flight level Business Agility

    Agile at Scale. Ever since we started our journey into Agile and scrum, we have been wondering whether we were on the right path for business and IT agility. Way back when we were with 7 scrum teams scaling wasn’t the most important issue. With our growth came challenges for scaling our agile way of working. We have been on a few plateaus where we were searching for the next step, as have been other companies on the same venture. Today we talk about some of the things we learned…

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    Agile at Scale – Reality is complex, don’t expect simple solutions

    Video: How does IT work?

    Menno Vis, on 16-12-2017
    Category: Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum Culture Autonomy Video

    Over 1200 people work at bol.com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces. Staying organized at this scale is definitely a challenge. To make this happen, we optimize for autonomy, mastery, purpose and ownership

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    Video: How does IT work?

    Our agile journey so far – Part 5: Sustaining the change

    Menno Vis, on 1-11-2017
    Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum devops Culture leadership

    This is the fifth and last post about our growth story. You’ve read about the history of bol.com and the process they made to reach their goal: landing on the moon. Now we’ve come to the final chapter.

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    Our agile journey so far – Part 5: Sustaining the change

    Bol.com goes to the university of Amsterdam!

    Mary Gouseti, on 12-10-2017
    Category: Development, Events Tags: Software Agile Scrum Development University Amsterdam

    For the last 4 years, Menno represents bol.com as a guest lecturer in one of the courses of the Software Engineering Master’s program at University of Amsterdam, this year it’s about Requirements engineering.

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    Bol.com goes to the university of Amsterdam!

    Our agile journey so far – Part 4: Servant leaders

    Menno Vis, on 23-08-2017
    Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum devops leadership

    This is the fourth post about our growth story. In the previous blog post we explained how bol.com realized an organizational change with YBIYRIYLI (You build it, you run it, you love it). Now it’s time to take a closer look at the more personal part. How can a company make sure employees stay happy and motivated? What does it take to be a leader in a company with autonomous teams? And how did bol.com take on this challenge?

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    Our agile journey so far – Part 4: Servant leaders

    Our agile journey so far – Part 3: You build it, you run it, you love it

    Menno Vis, on 15-05-2017
    Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum devops YBIYRIYLI

    This is the third post about our growth story. In the last blog post we elaborated on some necessary steps to take in an organizational change. We have explained that the steps bol.com has taken are very much in line with John Kotter’s steps. In this post we will have a closer look at the process in the spaces.

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    Our agile journey so far – Part 3: You build it, you run it, you love it

    Our agile journey so far – Part 2: involving everyone

    Menno Vis, on 27-03-2017
    Category: Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum

    This is the second post about our growth story. In the first blog post we introduced our Man on the Moon program; how we plan to manage a fast growing company like ours. In this second part we’ll explain how we have involved all stakeholders and participants in our journey to the moon. Also, we’ll share what has inspired us and how this has helped us to set our own direction.

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    Our agile journey so far – Part 2: involving everyone

    Our agile journey so far – Part 1: bol.com to the moon!

    Menno Vis, on 1-03-2017
    Category: Culture Tags: Agile Scrum

    From a small online book store to an e-commerce platform with 7 million customers. That’s the short version of the bol.com story so far. This is the first post from a series through which we would like to share our growth story. These posts are written by Roy Gielen, an agile enabler who interviewed several persons at bol.com on this topic.

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    Our agile journey so far – Part 1: bol.com to the moon!
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