From developers to CEO

ScrumImpulz, 31.5.2018

Kentico

From developers to CEO

Kentico Software is a Czech software company from Brno,

founded in 2004.

100

1,000

7,000

25,000

countries

partners

customers

websites

4

5

250+

continents

subsidiaries

employees

NOT transforming teams

2010

So Agile? Not for us…

Transforming teams

2012

So Agile, I’ll take one!

Transforming departments

2014

Transforming the product

2016

Cloud-first Headless CMS

Kentico Cloud

https://kenticocloud.com/knowledge-base/headless-cms

Transforming the management team

2017

Team NO. 1!

What management should care about

1. Set goals

2. Clarify priorities

3. Ensure alignment

4. Facilitate execution

5. Evaluate continualy

Set goals

Why goals are so important:

• Sets the target

• Clarify what exactly we are shooting for

• Helps to find out if you are on board

• Enables people to commit

Ideal scene

Ideal scene on June 30, 2018

Ideal scene

Onboarded partnerCustomers love KCSales goal Competitive

advantage Value proposition

Clarify priorities

Why priorities are so important:

• Make priorities clear across the company

• To address stuff with the greatest impact on business

• Prevent suboptimal solutions

• Invest money wisely

One funnel

One Funnel

One funnel

Ensure alignment

Why alignment is so important:

• Utilize combined forces

• Facilitates the flow of activities

• Avoid grey zones

• Speed-up delivery

• Prevent disputes

Themes

Themes

Facilitate execution

Why execution is so important:

• Execution phase often fails

• Value is created right here

• We learn the most here

• Limit work in progress and complexity

• We can do what we love

Key principles

Key principles of execution

• Choose the right people

• Focus on the outcomes

• Allow autonomy and accountability

• Iterative way of working

• Minimize size of the team

Evaluate continually

Why evaluation is so important:

• Ensures constant improvements

• Provide feedback for personal growth

• Steer team towards the goal

Retrospectives

The never-ending story!

Evolution

Why it is so important to make transformation endless:

• Market evolves

• Competitors are not sleeping and new ones are coming

• Innovation is a product of modern companies

• Customer standards are changing

• Successful companies are growing

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