Fridtjof Detzner Arne Roock

Kanban, Leadership and Alignment at Jimdo

1999

start

2010

2013

10,000,000

worldwide. growing. profitable.

How to rapidly grow a company while staying fast as a racehorse

Magic Scaling Wheel

Magic Scaling Wheel

X - Teams

food

real

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are

on a boat

food

Magic Scaling Wheel

jimdo is growing and growing in headcount

so normal companies would:

Project Managers

Reporting

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Detailed planning

Budgeting

Departments

we know why other companies do all this. But we simply don‘t want to do it the same way because it‘s not fitting our culture.

Teamverløtung

read this book! meet this guy!

The spice girls question:

So tell me what you want, what you really, really want

Goal#1 Goal #1

Jimdo for iOS

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Launch in every country

dev, design, operations, translations, press meetings all over the world, video, photo shoot, website presentation, community work, support, synchronous launch all over the world

Idea Wall

Open Prioritization Meeting

Sprints (!= Scrum Sprints)

Magic Scaling Wheel

Kanban

But wait, where is theManagement?

• Synchronizing • Motivation • Removing Obstacles • Tracking Progress • Alignment

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Management by !Teamverløtung

• Alignment • Company-wide strategy • Collaboration across teams •Power of the company became visible to every member

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Management by !Goal #1

• Stakeholder Management • Focus on business value • Queue Management • Effectiveness • Alignment

Open-Prioritization-Meeting

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Management by !

• Resource Allocation • Hiring • Efficiency

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Management by !cross-functional teams

• Shared mid-term vision • Alignment • Building Trust

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Management by !Sprints

There is more than one way to run a company.Choose the path that is fitting your company culture and be courageous to do things differently.

@fridel Arne / Dr. Rock @arneroock !

Fridtjof / Co-Founder jimdo.com @Fridel

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