Respect for those who do it agile!
True to the DIY store chain's motto "Respect those who do it themselves!", toom took on the challenge of agile transformation with SAFe – and is building on Agile Hive, among other things.
Scale that demands agility
toom Baumarkt runs over 300 stores with more than 18,000 employees. Rolling out SAFe across an organization this size takes courage — and the right tooling.
We are agile, we've done it! We've created the processes and roles, the tools are in place – all this is accepted and lived. All that's left to do is consolidating the agile mindset.
Christine Heitmann
Teamlead Team Coaches | toom
Finally a proper and affordable solution for SAFe with Jira. We have been looking forward to get this for a long time now and the first experience is amazing!
Lukas Landwehr
Lead PO S/4HANA | toom
How toom transformed with SAFe
From a rigid demand-and-supply model to a fully scaled agile organization — three milestones that made it happen.
- Before 2019
From "Demand and Supply" to SAFe
The existing model was slow and inflexible. Prioritization was not aligned across all levels of the organization, leading to conflicts and release cycles of up to a year — the goal was to reduce or completely eliminate those efforts.
- 2019 – 2020
The new organization takes shape
An orientation week in mid-2019 kicked off the transformation, followed by the first Sprint in April 2020. The iterative and incremental methods of Scrum and SAFe provided the foundation for a new way of working.
- 2021
Methodology meets tool – Agile Hive
Agile Hive was implemented in cooperation with Seibert Group. Company priorities can be scaled across all levels, PIs managed and planned by the ARTs, and dependencies visualized and tracked automatically.
The pillars of agile transformation with toom
With more than 140 employees and a total of 17 teams, the IT department focuses on the further development and operation of IT systems. The agile transformation is based on the motto "courage, speed and agility".
The decision for Agile Hive was made in the beginning of 2021. Meanwhile, more than 100 employees in the Agile Release Train use the tool every day — starting right after the completion of their first PI Planning.
Courage
To change an organization that has developed over decades and to constantly enter new, uncertain areas as well as fill them with life.
Speed
To keep up with the competition and respond quickly to changing market needs and opportunities.
Agility
Flexibility and adaptability to respond to new challenges as they arise across the entire organization.
The overall improvement
The introduction of SAFe, supported by Agile Hive, has significantly improved collaboration with the business units. Requirements for the organization are now managed centrally via the portfolio management.
The much faster communication both within and between teams is outstanding. In addition, much shorter cycles were established. Put simply: people became faster, better and more satisfied.
You can say that the speed and quality of our work has improved enormously, along with the perception and the cooperation with all stakeholders.
Christine Heitmann
Teamlead Team Coaches · toom
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