10X ORG – Powered by Org Topologies

Alexey Krivitsky has been a developer, manager, Scrum Master, community builder, writer—and today, once again, a developer, now working as an AI-augmented software engineer. He has practiced Extreme Programming and Scrum since around 2004 and is widely recognized as the first Scrum Master in Ukraine. As a business trainer, Alexey held both Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Certified LeSS Trainer (CLT) credentials, supporting organizations worldwide in adopting modern product development practices.  Since 2021, Alexey has partnered with Roland Flemm to develop Org Topologies™, a strategic organizational design approach that distills their joint consulting experience helping organizations achieve adaptability beyond the team level—across entire enterprises.  In 2024, their long-time mentor Craig Larman joined the book project. The result is 10X ORG—an org design system—a bold exploration of how product R&D and service organizations can elevate performance by combining human capability and artificial intelligence. This unlocks systemic, sustainable organizational improvements at 10X scale and beyond.

Roland began his career in 1984 and spent more than twenty years working in IT as a developer and operations professional. In 2011, he shifted his focus to Agile and Scrum, expanding his impact from technology delivery to organizational transformation. He is a Certified Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and has worked for over two decades as a business consultant across various industries, supporting organizations on their journey toward greater adaptability. Roland regularly speaks at international conferences, sharing his ideas on adaptive organizational design. Since 2021, Roland has partnered with Alexey Krivitsky to develop Org Topologies™, a strategic organizational design approach that distills their combined consulting experience helping enterprises achieve adaptability beyond the team level.

Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), and helps groups apply the LeSS framework for scaling product development. Craig was named one of the top 20 Agile influencers of all time, was one of the first "Certified Scrum Trainers", and is the co-author of multiple books on scaling lean & agile development. Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having very little of his own). In addition to organizational design, he has worked since the 1970s for better software designs, and is the author of one of the world’s best-selling texts on object-oriented design, patterns, modeling, and architecture.