Links June 2025

Peter Green’s video overview of Laloux’s cultural model and how it applies to Agile adoption in various types of organizations.

Peter Green

Culture is an often ignored, misunderstood and yet a key dynamic in company performance. In this article we will introduce a model of culture that is simple to understand and apply. The model will be used to show that Agile, Kanban and Software Craftsmanship have strong cultural biases that limit the scope of their applicability. Finally, an approach will be outlined to select approaches that work with the culture in your organization.

Michael K Sahota

Continuous learning and improvement, customer centricity, humility, cross-functional collaboration, evidence-based decision making, experimentation, design and course correction — to name a few — are visibly absent from the SAFe conversation. Instead, organizations adopting this way of working focus on rigid team structures, strict rituals and events and an uneven distribution of behavior change requirements depending on how high up one sits in the organization.

Jeff Gothelf