The chicken or the egg
It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Which comes first when transitioning to agile ways of working? Do you re-organize or restructure your organization first – setting teams and roles up for more agile execution? Or do you align your product, application, and workflows into value streams to feed to your teams? What a conundrum.
Ten years ago, I saw most organizations leaning into organizational changes and not putting much thought into the value streams their teams would be working on.
Now it’s flipped a bit, and there’s a strong focus on value streams, probably influenced by SAFe, amongst many factors. And then, the executing organization is composed as an afterthought.